Police on Sunday claimed of tracing the man who had made calls to Government officers demanding money and recharge on mobile phones while posing as senior IAS officers of Chhattisgarh Government including Additional Chief Secretary to Chief Minister (ACS) N Baijendra Kumar.
The accused identified as Ranjan Kumar Mishra (30), a native of Bihar is presently lodged in Muzaffarpur Central Jail in Bihar from where he had made the calls, Inspector General of Police (Raipur) GP Singh told reporters here on Sunday.
According to Singh, impersonating as senior IAS officers including ACS N Baijendra Kumar and other officials, the accused used to pressurize their subordinates for depositing money in a bank account and make a recharge on his mobile number.
Notably, the incident came to light when the accused posing as ACS N Baijendra Kumar, a few days back had made a call to Alok Dwivedi posted in CSIDC and demanded cash of Rs2 lakh to be deposited in a bank account. The accused told Dwivedi to get a recharge of Rs5,000 on his mobile number. Sensing something fishy about the call, Dwivedi contacted the ACS following which the crime came to light and the ACS later lodged a complaint with Devendra Nagar police station.
The case was handed over to CCB and during the course of investigation after collecting technical details, the CCB managed to trace out the location of accused following which it came to light that the accused Mishra was presently lodged in Central Jail in Muzaffarpur, said Singh, adding that mobile and SIM cards were also seized from him. Efforts are on to bring the accused to Raipur, the IG informed.