Fake Army man arrested

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, October 13

The Doon police arrested a person wearing Army uniform from Mahindra Ground in Garhi Cantt here today when candidates were appearing in the physical efficiency test during a Army recruitment rally there.

Personnel of the city police intelligence unit and the Army intelligence arrested the suspect.

According to information, the Army authorities called the officials of the Army intelligence and the Doon police after they noticed a man wearing Army uniform moving in a suspicious manner at the rally ground.

He posed as a Army man on security duty at the recruitment rally, which had started on October 8. Senior police and Army officials along with the force reached the rally ground and arrested him.

The arrested person has been identified as Vikas Singh Rawat, a resident of Marchamgrant, Doiwala. He disclosed during preliminary interrogation that he had told his family that he was undergoing Army training at Jaipur in Rajasthan. He had even taken his family members to the Garhwal Rifles Regimental Centre at Lansdowne to convince them that he has joined the Army. The security agencies found a train reservation ticket for Jaipur from his possession. He is a matriculate and has worked in a hotel in Haridwar.

SP (City) Ajay Singh confirmed to The Tribune that a person was arrested from the rally ground. A case had been registered against him. It is worth mentioning that two dreaded Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, who were planning to create disturbance during the passing-out parade at the Indian Military Academy, were arrested in Dehradun in 2010.