Ghaziabad: A 28-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly posing as a income tax inspector and looking for benefits in hotels and restaurants.
The defendant has been identified as Mohammad Rafique, a Jharkhand resident.
He is a Btech engineer.
The police said he did not get a job for some time and recently, he began to introduce himself as a income tax officer.
The police have recovered a joined letter and forged identity cards, along with several other documents, from the man.
Krishan Gopal Sharma, Sho, Gerbang Sihani, said the young man had lived in a hotel in the city for almost three months but he thought he did not pay any fees.
“We learned that he had checked in on April 27.
But whenever the hotel staff asked for money, he would start threatening them,” Sharma said.
“As long as it was interrogated, the defendant told the police that he received a B-Tech title from a private college about four years ago.
When he did not get a job in his field, he began looking for government work.
But one year ago, when his parents asked him.
What he did, he told them that he had received a government job and he had become a income tax inspector.
Since then, he began to introduce himself as an income tax officer, “he added.
Police said Rafique had a relationship with a woman and she had told her that she was a government employee and they would get married soon.
He had been ordered under the 420 section (penalty for cheating), 467 (forgery), 468 (forgery for cheating purposes), 471 (using fake documents or electronic records) and 470 (forgery) IPC.
Men posed as tax inspectors, held
