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Fake policeman held

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— Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

This one’s a fake: DCP (Central) B.N.S. Reddy (right) questioning Lourdanadhan (sitting on the motorcycle), who was arrested by the Wilson Garden police in Bangalore on Saturday for impersonating as a policeman.

BANGALORE: The Wilson Garden police on Friday arrested Lourdanadhan (39), who allegedly impersonated as a policeman to help finance companies and banks in recovering vehicles from defaulters, besides cheating several job aspirants.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) B.N.S. Reddy told presspersons on Saturday that Lourdanadhan, who had passed II PUC, had prepared a fake photo identity card and impersonated as Ajay Kumar, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Central Crime Branch (CCB).

However, he used to wear a head constable’s uniform (with a core on his shoulder), a cap and a belt with the emblem of the Karnataka Police, which he had purchased from a shop in Shivajinagar.

Besides, he had fitted his motorcycle with a fake number plate with the registration number of a Government vehicle and also pasted a “police” sticker on his motorcycle.

When the police raided Lourdanadhan’s house at Katamma Nellore village, off Whitefield, on the outskirts of the city, they found three fake number plates and an identity card, Mr. Reddy said.

Clad in the police uniform, Lourdanadhan approached those who had defaulted on vehicle loans. The “policeman” would tell the defaulters that on the instructions of the bank he was seizing their vehicles.

He had thus helped recovery agents, who had hired him, in recovering vehicles, Mr. Reddy said.

The police are on the lookout for Aiyappa, a recovery agent of a vehicle finance company and an accomplice of Lourdanadhan.

According to Mr. Reddy, the accused had also cheated several people of money to the tune of Rs. 20,000 to Rs. 25,000 by promising them jobs in HAL and International Technology Park Ltd. (ITPL). He was also operating in Doddaballapur, Devanahalli and Kolar Gold Fields (KGF).

The police have recovered from him cash, gold ornaments and two mobile phones and a motorcycle.

On a tip off, the police, on Friday, arrested Loordanadhan near a restaurant on 14th Main, Wilson Garden, he said.

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