Man impersonating Army officer arrested

AMRITSAR: Acting on a tip-off provided by Army officers, the police have arrested a fake Army personnel at a checkpoint here on Saturday. He was driving a vehicle with an insignia of Army attached on it. He was identified as Sukhjinder Singh Khera, who hailed from Khera Majjan Singh village in Kapurthala. At present, he was in live-in relationship with a woman at Bath Avenue here.

The car in which the accused was travelling. Tribune photo

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, August 25

Acting on a tip-off provided by Army officers, the police have arrested a fake Army personnel at a checkpoint here on Saturday. He was driving a vehicle with an insignia of Army attached on it. He was identified as Sukhjinder Singh Khera, who hailed from Khera Majjan Singh village in Kapurthala. At present, he was in live-in relationship with a woman at Bath Avenue here.

According to information, Khera’s father, Mohan Singh Khera, retired as a Lieutenant Colonel and had expired around a decade ago. He allegedly morphed and forged his father and mother’s identity cards also.

A case under Sections 419, 420, 467, 471, 473, 170 and 171 of the IPC has been registered against him. He was produced in court and remanded in police custody further interrogation. The police impounded the car with an insignia of Army attached on it. Sources said Army authorities had submitted a complaint against him to Police Commissioner SS Srivastva around a week ago. Following this, the police started a hunt to nab him and he was intercepted at a checkpoint here on Saturday.

During a preliminary probe, the police found two Aadhaar cards from his possession. One was of Ludhiana and the other was of Amritsar. However, he was not living at the two residential addresses giving in these identity cards. A combat uniform of Artillery with badges of flying officer was also found from the car. Besides, the police confiscated around five passbooks and cheque books.

He had been in a live-in relationship with a woman in Amritsar for the past one-and-a-half years. He was fooling her by claiming to be an Army officer. She told the police that on the pretext of going out for duties he used to remain away from home for many days together before returning home.

Sandeep Kumar Malik, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, said though he had admitted that he had fake identity cards of Army in his possession and that his father had retired from the Army. He said his antecedents were being verified.