Man cons two by impersonating as joint director of CBI,arrested

The Crime Branch of the Delhi Police solved two cases of impersonation with the arrest of Amit Aggarwal,who allegedly used to take huge amounts of money from people saying he was closely related to the Joint Director of CBI and that he could get any dispute settled.

Additional Commissioner of Police Ravindra Yadav said in one case he tried to influence the Additional DG,Foreign Trade,to renew an export licence of a company.

In the second case,Aggarwal threatened the owner of real estate firm,OMAXE Builders,to settle a dispute over two plots by paying Rs 60 lakh each for the plots to the parties who had paid Rs 9 lakh each for booking the plots in 2005.

These incidents came to light after the Crime Branch received a complaint alleging that Additional DG,Foreign Trade,received a call from the “joint director,CBI,” who insisted that export licence of an import export company be renewed.

The Crime Branch also received another complaint from DGM (Human Resources) of Omaxe Builders,stating that the “joint director of CBI had threatened the joint managing director and general manager of the company for either allot two plots booked by two persons — Surender Kumar and Ajay Kumar — or pay a huge amount to them as compensation.

The “joint director” allegedly threatened that if the the amount was not paid to the two,then he would take stern action against the company and its directors,police said.

“We began wondering why a CBI director would make calls to settle private affairs. So we checked the call detail records and traced the number from which the calls were made. It was found that the impersonator has obtained the SIM by submitting “fake documents” and made only limited calls from it. We then registered two separate cases of impersonation,forgery and extortion,” a police officer said.

During investigation,it was found that Aggarwal obtained the SIM card through his brother-in-law who worked at the verification agency of the mobile service provider. Technical surveillance and analysis of the mobile number helped police zero in on Aggarwal.

During questioning, Aggarwal revealed that his business had suffered a loss of nearly Rs 80 lakh in 2008 after which he started working as a property dealer.

Aggarwal told police that he used to tell those close to him that he was acquainted with senior government officials and convinced them that he could resolve any issue.

Police are investigating if Aggarwal had been involved in more such cases.