The Delhi Police on Sunday arrested a 22-year-old civil protection volunteer from Old Delhi railway station for allegedly posing as police personnel for touring with no ticket to his native metropolis in Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh.
He was sporting the uniform of an assistant sub-inspector and was caught when a policeman requested him how he was promoted to the ASI rank at such a younger age. He couldn’t give a passable reply.
DCP (Railways) Harendra Kumar Singh stated the accused has been recognized as Jai Kishan Yadav and the incident got here to gentle when Yogesh Kumar, a constable of Delhi Police, noticed him on the station in uniform.
“Yogesh, posted within the Seventh Delhi Armed Police, had come to drop his pals they usually too had been on their method to Azamgarh. He made a PCR name and knowledgeable the native police about Yadav. Singh stated.
During interrogation, Yadav revealed that he and his two brothers needed to go to their native metropolis of Azamgarh by Farakka Express prepare, however they’d solely two confirmed tickets. He determined to put on the uniform of Delhi Police ASI in order that he wouldn’t be requested to point out the ticket.
An FIR has been registered towards him at Old Delhi Railway Station underneath sections 170 (impersonating a public servant) and 171 (sporting a token utilized by a public servant with fraudulent intent) of the IPC.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
