A man from Vadodara, Gujarat, was detained for assuming the identity of a PMO official in order to enrol two children in a local private school and attempt to defraud it of sizable sums of money, an official said on Saturday.
Mayank Tiwari was detained on Friday, months after Kiran Patel, a native of Ahmedabad, was detained in Jammu and Kashmir from a five-star hotel for impersonating a senior official from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). In addition to providing hospitality, Patel had obtained security protection by deceiving Valley officials.
Following a complaint from the school administration, the Waghodia police on Friday arrested Tiwari and filed a case against him under Indian Penal Code sections 170 (personating a public officer), 420 (cheating), and 406 (criminal breach of trust).
After Kiran Patel of Ahmedabad, Tiwari is the second individual from Gujarat to have been detained recently for pretending to be a PMO official.
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