Conman Arrested For Posing As Gujarat CMO Official, Raping A Model | India News

Vadodara: Police have arrested a person for allegedly posing as an official of the Gujarat chief minister’s workplace (CMO) and president of Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), and on the cost of raping a mannequin on the promise of giving her a job, an official stated right here on Sunday. The accused conman, Viraj Patel, was arrested on Saturday, he stated, including that his actual id got here to mild after he was dropped at a police station in Vadodara following his quarrel with somebody. 

“The man was brought to the police station on Friday night along with the model accompanying him after he entered into a quarrel with someone at a multiplex. The accused initially told the police that he was a CMO official who had come to watch a movie with the woman. He also claimed that he was the president of the GIFT City,” Assistant Commissioner of Police A V Katkad stated. 

When then police checked his id, it was discovered that he used a special surname on his PAN card, whereas there was no surname talked about on his Aadhaar card. 

During his interrogation, Patel revealed that he was neither working within the CMO nor was he the president of GIFT City, he stated. 

After his actual id got here to mild, the mannequin from Mumbai accompanying him claimed that he raped her on the pretext of giving her a job because the model ambassador of GIFT City and promised to marry her, Katkad stated. 

In the preliminary investigation, it was discovered that he’s a resident of Gandhinagar, the ACP stated, including that additional probe into the case was handed over to town crime department. The accused was booked beneath Indian Penal Code sections 170 (pretending to carry any specific workplace as a public servant), 417 (dishonest), 467 (forgery), and 376 (rape), the police officer stated.