IAF wing commander arrested for posing as Amit Shah

Bhopal: The Special Task Force (STF) of Madhya Pradesh Police has arrested a serving Air Force Wing Commander for impersonating as Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the phone and asking Madhya Pradesh Governor Lalji Tandon to appoint a friend as vice-chancellor of a university, Additional Director General of Police Ashok Awasthi said.

Wing Commander Kuldeep Vaghela who is reported to have worked in the Raj Bhawan earlier got his friend Chandresh Kumar Shukla, a known Dental Surgeon, to pose as Amit Shah’s personal assistant and called the governor over the phone.

He asked the staff to connect the call to the Governor. Once the governor came online Waghela took over the conversation as Amit Shah and asked him to consider Dr. Shukla to be appointed as Vice-Chancellor of a medical sciences university.

Shukla, who runs a dental clinic in Bhopal and has ambitions of making it big in Bollywood, has also been arrested.

Both have been charged with cheating and impersonation under section 419 and 420 and have been remanded to police custody and will be produced before the court again on Monday.

According to sources in Madhya Pradesh police notification for selection of vice-chancellor of Madhya Pradesh Medical Sciences University Jabalpur was issued by Raj Bhavan on July 29, 2019. (IANS)

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