Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
The Thalaghattapura police on Tuesday arrested a 30-year-old PU dropout who posing as IPS officer cheated a businessman and escaped with Rs.2.2 crore .
Senior officer told reporters,Based on the complaint by, Venkata Narayana,the Thalaghattapura police track down the accused through the CDR and CCTV details and arrested him.
During investigation it was found that the accused R Srinivas,34,resident of Chandra Layout was arrested in a car theft case in Vijayanagar police station in 2010.
After his release he started meeting people posing as Probationary IPS officer working in Mysuru and get closed to the businessmen and realtors promising them to help them in civil disputes cases.
Using the MO,he met Venkata Narayana,a city based businessman through a common friend and became close.
During a casual conversion,Srinivas told Venkata Narayana that he was handling a bigger land litigation case in Mysuru worth Rs.450 crores and told him that he is getting the commission of Rs.250 crore out of it .
He also discussed some investment and business preposition with Venkata Narayana to take him into confidence.
Bowled by his charm,position and business prepositions,Venkata Narayana offered to help him in investment.
Few days later Srinivas called him seeking an emergency financial help of Rs.2.5 crore and assured to return.
Trusting his words,Venkata Narayana arranged the money and handed him over.Soon after the money was received Srinivas went underground and became incommunicado.
After waiting for few days Venkata Narayana tried to reach him and later on suspicion cross checked with the police in Mysore to know that there was no one by name Srinivas as IPS officer .
The accused was into the con business for the last two years and got police uniform stitched and got a SUV for himself to move around he had watched the movies to done the role of police officer and got a FAKE ID created .
He would even got the hair cut and doctored the photos and videos of him in training and while chatting with others in uniform, P Krishnakant,DCP, South division,said.
The accused suspected to have cheated many and bought expensive cars and bikes and spend the money lavishly on his girlfriend,he added .
The police are now taken him into custody to ascertain his criminal background,Mr.Krishnakant said.
