New Delhi: A 25-year-old youth, who had performed under-19 cricket for Haryana and claimed to have represented Mumbai Indians within the Indian Premier League (IPL), was arrested on Monday for dishonest the Taj Palace Hotel in Delhi of over Rs 5 lakhs in July 2022, a Delhi Police official mentioned on Wednesday. The accused, recognized as Mrinank Singh, a resident of Faridabad in Haryana, had additionally duped cricketer Rishabh Pant and a number of other luxurious inns house owners and managers throughout India by impersonating a senior IPS officer of Karnataka, the official mentioned.
Singh was nabbed on the IGI Airport by immigration officers whereas he was making an attempt to fly to Hong Kong. He had a glance out-circular (LOC) issued towards him by the native court docket after a non-bailable warrant was issued in his identify.
Singh’s arrest adopted a criticism by the Director of Security, Taj Palace Hotel on the Chanakyapuri police station final August, alleging that Singh had stayed within the resort from July 22-29, 2022, posing as a cricketer, and left with out paying payments of Rs 5,53,362.
When requested for the fee, he had mentioned that his firm Adidas would do it and had even shared a faux UTR variety of on-line transaction of Rs two lakh. However, when the resort checked the system, they discovered that no fee was made by him, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, New Delhi, Ravi Kant Kumar mentioned.
Singh and his supervisor, Gagan Singh, had been contacted a number of occasions on their mobiles for fee however they made false statements and guarantees and supplied incorrect info, Kumar mentioned.
During investigation, the police despatched a discover to Singh’s tackle however he was not discovered there. He had switched off his cell phone and was speaking via social media platforms or web chatting functions. He had additionally misled his acquaintances that he was not in India and had settled in Dubai, Kumar mentioned.
During his detention on the airport, Singh tried to affect the immigration officers by making a telephone name to senior police officers, posing as Karnataka ADGP Alok Kumar, and searching for help for his son, who had been illegally detained on the airport, Kumar mentioned.
On interrogation, he tried to mislead the police, claiming that his father Ashok Kumar Singh, who had been a global cricket participant for India in Eighties to late Nineties, was working as a supervisor in Air India and posted on the airport, Kumar mentioned.
Singh additionally confessed that he had cheated a number of luxurious resorts/inns of lakhs of rupees by citing himself as ADGP, Karnataka and utilizing his stardom as IPL cricketer to affect them and keep for a number of days and go away with out clearing their dues on the false promise of paying them later, Kumar mentioned.
“From the prima facie analysis of his mobile phone, it was revealed that there are multiple victims of his fraud and impersonation and duped amount runs into several lakhs of rupees. His victims include hotels, bars, restaurants, girls, cab drivers, small eating outlets among others,” the Additional CP mentioned.
He additionally mentioned that Pant was conned by him to the tune of Rs 1.63 crores in 2020-2021. He mentioned that his cell phone contained a number of movies and pictures of his acquaintance with younger feminine fashions/ladies, a few of them extremely objectionable.
