In Lucknow, a man pretended to be an IPS officer and had a fight with a tea vendor. When the police arrived they also threatened him. When he failed to show his identity card, he was exposed and arrested.
The drama of a man becoming a fake IPS officer in the metropolitan area of Lucknow ended when he was trying to impress a tea vendor. The incident took place at Gol Market intersection. On receiving information about a fight over payment, the police patrolling team reached the tea stall. Sub-Inspector Aryan Sharma reached the spot with his team. He saw that a man was arguing badly with the tea seller Veeru Gupta over the money for the bread packet. When the matter escalated, the person started claiming that he was an IPS officer posted in Noida.
A video of this entire clash has also surfaced on social media. In this, this person calling himself an officer is seen having a heated argument with the policemen.
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According to the FIR, when the policemen tried to confirm his identity, he instead started questioning them. Showing off his alleged seniority, he asked the policemen, “Why aren’t you wearing a cap? Why haven’t you saluted me?”
But when the police asked him for his government identity card (ID card) and information about his IPS batch, he was shocked. The man made the excuse that he did not have the ID yet and would show it the next day. His answer deepened the police’s suspicion.
Police said that when he was strictly interrogated, he revealed his real identity. His name is Mithilesh Shukla and he is a resident of Bharat Nagar on Sitapur Road in Lucknow. Further investigation revealed that Shukla was not a senior police officer. Actually, he works in a multinational electronics company in Sector-18, Noida.
Metropolitan SHO Akhilesh Mishra said that Mithilesh was trying to intimidate the patrolling team by falsely pretending to be a senior police officer. In this way he obstructed government work. “We have arrested Mithilesh under sections 132 (assault on government servant), 221 (obstructing government servant) and 204 (falsely impersonating a government servant) of the BNS,” the SHO said. Police have registered the case and arrested the accused.