Man posing as police commissioner held

Tribune News Service

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Panchkula, April 5

The police have arrested a 32-year-old resident of Sector 15 for posing as a police commissioner and committing a fraud. He was produced before a local court today, which remanded him in three-day police custody.

The accused, Vivek Saklani, was arrested last night after a Sector 15 resident approached the police. The victim told the police that Saklani came to his shop and took away a cellphone claiming that he was the police commissioner. The police arrested the accused from his residence and also recovered a car from near his house. The registration certificate of the car does not bear Saklani’s name. Hailing from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, Saklani was living alone in a rented accommodation in Sector 15. He told the police that he was doing this for almost a year now to get his work done easily. Saklani is a science graduate.

Was using amber beacon atop car

The accused was using an amber beacon atop his Tata Zest car along with a Government of India sticker, a flag that reads IRS and two stars on the number plate.