In the desperate bid to flee arrest, a faux cop questioned authentic cops to indicate their ID cards! Nonetheless, if the genuine males in khaki questioned him to indicate his ID, he claimed to get a CID officer, ‘who don’t have cards to stay undetected’. The trick, nonetheless, did not function along with the fake cop was nabbed red-handed.

On Thursday night, one Kuldipdinh Rajput, 22, went to Poornima Visitor Residence on Relief Street, and asked the supervisor to point out the visitors’ register. Rajput determined himself a Punjab CID officer, and threatened the supervisor, 1 Jayesh Pandey, 27, for not retaining a register as per the regulation. Rajput advised Pandey that he would seize the sign-up and shut the guest household, if the latter did not accompany him to your CID business office in close proximity to Lal Darwaza.

Later, the fake cop, sensing his ploy had worked, demanded Rs30,000 from Pandey to ‘forget’ the difficulty. Rajput, a native of Delwara in Rajasthan, lastly settled for Rs10,000, of which he had collected Rs3,000 from Pandey, and informed the operator on the visitor house to hand him the remaining quantity. The proprietor sensed a little something was amiss and knowledgeable the Kalupur police about the ‘raid’.

When he saw the actual cops, Rajput experimented with to escape, but was caught.