Agra: A 25-year-old man posing as assistant director of Enforcement Directorate (ED) was arrested in Mathura on Tuesday after he approached a DSP’s office claiming to be an agency officer, police said.
Sharma claimed that he had appeared for UPSC exam in 2023 and cleared the preliminary stage but failed to qualify for the mains, after which he applied for the post of assistant director through Pratibha portal and claimed to have secured the position, police said. Police seized a fake ED identity card, three Aadhaar cards, a driving licence, a PAN card, four debit cards, three Visa cards, three mobile phones and Rs 2,025 in cash. A case has been registered against him under BNS sections 319 (cheating by personation), 318(4) (cheating), 336(2) (forgery), 338 (forgery of valuable security) and 340(2) (using forged documents or electronic records).
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During interrogation, he told police that he had been posing as ED officer for the past two years “to build influence and establish his public image, with plans to extort money from businessmen by threatening them with ED raids. DSP contacted acquaintances in ED to verify his identity after he grew suspicious, and was told that no person by that name worked with the agency, police said. SP (city) Rajeev Kumar Singh said, “It was found that Sharma cheated several people by posing as ED officer and he also claimed the position on his Facebook profile.
Sharma’s identity card was also found to be fake. A car fitted with red-and-blue beacons was also seized. Download the TOI App.
Sachin Sharma, a resident of Dheemarpada locality in Farah town, was arrested from DSP Praveen Tiwari’soffice in the city’s Refinery circle on Monday evening.