E-rickshaw driver posed as cop to avoid toll tax; nabbed in Gurugram
Gurugram (PTI): A 34-year-old man was arrested for allegedly impersonating a police sub-inspector to avoid toll taxes, stay in hotels, and create an impression, police said on Sunday.
A sub-inspector's uniform, a fake identity card bearing the special police officer rank, a PAN card, and an Aadhaar card were recovered from him.
Police began to look for the impersonator at the complaint of the manager of Hotel Shubham.
The manager, in his complaint, said a man wearing a police uniform came to the hotel on Saturday and booked a room and produced an Aadhaar card in way of identification.
Later, he returned to the hotel and began making unnecessary inquiries about the room, arousing suspicion. When the manager probed him more about his antecedents, he panicked and tried to flee, but was caught, according to the complaint.
Police arrested Jhajjar resident Mukesh Kumar from the hotel.
Interrogation revealed that Kumar had taken an e-rickshaw on rent and plied it in Khatu, Rajasthan.
He would frequently commute between Jhajjar and Khatu and had to pay toll tax, so he decided to pose as a policeman to drive through without paying.
"The arrested accused revealed that he obtained a Special Police Officer (SPO) ID card from someone in Jhajjar for Rs 500. He also had a Haryana Police sub-inspector uniform stitched for Rs 2,200 from a person in Jharodha Kalan, Delhi," a police spokesperson said.
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BJP has history of ‘contradictory alliances’, says BK Hariprasad
Bengaluru: Congress MLC B. K. Hariprasad has launched a sharp attack on the BJP, accusing the party of hypocrisy over its criticism of alliance politics in Tamil Nadu.
In a post on X on Friday, Hariprasad said BJP leader B. L. Santhosh criticising the Congress party’s alliance politics in Tamil Nadu was “not just laughable, but the height of political contradiction.”
He said the Congress has always joined hands with like-minded parties to protect secular and democratic values in the country.
Hariprasad questioned the BJP over several of its past and present alliances across the country. Referring to Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Tripura, Bihar and Maharashtra, he accused the BJP of sharing power with parties it had earlier criticised.
He alleged that the BJP had aligned with separatist and corruption-linked political forces in different states for political gains.
“The BJP, which speaks against alliances today, should first look at its own political history,” he said, adding that the party’s record was full of “contradictions and changing stands.”
Hariprasad also accused the BJP of using central agencies such as the Enforcement Directorate, Income Tax Department and CBI as political tools to target opposition leaders, topple governments and influence electoral mandates.
He further claimed that the people of Tamil Nadu had strongly rejected the BJP and its ideology in the recent election.
“Congress forms alliances to protect the Constitution, secularism and national unity, while the BJP enters into alliances only for power,” he said.
