Man held for duping youth impersonating himself as CRPF officer

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Bhubaneswar, Sept 29: Commissionerate Police today arrested a 30-year-old man for duping a Sundarpada resident of Rs 1.09 lakh impersonating himself as a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officer.

Accused Balaram Das
The victim has been identified as Ashis Patra (25).

According to Nayapalli police, Balaram Das, the accused hails from Bhadrak district, impersonating him as an inspector of CRPF had taken Rs 1.09 lakhs from Patra promising him to provide home appliances like fridge, television, washing machine and others from a defence canteen in Vishakhapatnam at 50 per cent less than the actual rate of these appliances.

The accused had taken the amount from Patra in August 22.

But later the accused had failed to return the received amount of the victim after his repeated calls.

Police said the victim reported the matter to police today after he failed to receive the given amount from the accused.

Acting on the complaint, a case under sections 170 (personating a public servant), 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC was registered and Balaram was nabbed from the plot number- 124 in Unit-VI area. Investigation is on progress, the police added.

Police had seized the fake CRPF identity card having all details like date of birth, service number, EPF number, post held, date of joining, fathers and address from the accused using which he had duped Patra.

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