FOLLOWING an enter from Navy Intelligence, the Pune Metropolis Police has arrested a 32-year-old man who allegedly posed as an Military Officer and cheated aspiring candidates to the Military.
Sleuths from the Crime Department of the Pune Metropolis Police have been engaged on an enter from Navy Intelligence unit of the Southern Command. On Saturday, following a joint operation, a suspect, Rafiq Jamadar (32), was arrested beneath Indian Penal Code Sections 170 (personating a public servant) and 171 (carrying garb or carrying token utilized by public servant with fraudulent intent).
“We now have seized an Military uniform of the ordnance sample and a few faux paperwork figuring out him as Military officer.
Preliminary probe means that the suspect was posing as an Military officer on social media and approaching aspiring candidates on the pretext of giving them jobs within the defence sector. He has additionally visited campuses of some defence institutions prior to now,” mentioned an officer who’s a part of the probe.
A number of circumstances of individuals posing as Military personnel have been unearthed by numerous police jurisdictions following inputs from Navy Intelligence. These circumstances have been reported from Pune, Nashik and Ahmednagar districts, during which imposters posing as Military officers or personnel, carrying Military uniform and posting pictures in Military uniforms on social media, have been arrested. Within the context of the presence of a number of key defence institutions in these districts, such circumstances of impersonation pose a severe risk to safety, officers have mentioned.
In lots of of those circumstances the suspects have been discovered to have taken cash from job aspirants on the pretext of serving to them get defence jobs.
