The Uttar Pradesh Police’s Special Task Force (STF) has arrested a man accused of duping people by impersonating the Chief Minister’s Personal Secretary. The arrest took place in the Kamta tri-section of Lucknow, with Farooq Aman, 26, taken into custody late on Thursday.
According to the STF, Aman orchestrated online gambling schemes and defrauded individuals by posing as the Chief Minister’s Personal Secretary. The arrest followed an investigation revealing Aman’s connection to an organized gang involved in cheating people by promising to help them pass competitive exams in exchange for money and organizing online gambling.
Aman, a resident of Sahriya village in Azamgarh district’s Nizamabad area, had two mobile phones, an Aadhar card, and several documents seized from him. The STF has registered a case against him at the Cyber Crime Commissionerate police station in Lucknow under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the IT Act.
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Earlier in June, the STF had arrested another individual, Vivek Sharma, also known as Bantu Chaudhary, for impersonating the Chief Minister’s Secretary and defrauding government officials over the phone. Sharma, who was apprehended in Basti district, had used fake calls to deceive administrative officials and the general public. He had even manipulated his mobile number to appear as “Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath” on the TrueCaller app.
Sharma further confessed to contacting the district magistrate and chief development officer of Basti while posing as the chief minister’s secretary. The police filed a case against him at Basti’s Kotwali police station under various sections of the IPC, including Sections 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 384 (extortion), and 507 (criminal intimidation by anonymous communication).
However, the STF statement also noted that Sharma faced multiple fraud-related charges in various police stations across Aligarh, Balrampur, Mathura, Kanpur Nagar, and Hardoi districts.
