Keep up with the most recent scam in Gujarat, where a fake acting as a PMO (Prime Minister’s Office) official was caught defrauding a private school.
A man from Vadodara, Gujarat, was detained for assuming the identity of a PMO official in order to enroll two children in a local private school and attempt to defraud it of sizable sums of money, an official said on Saturday.
Mayank Tiwari was detained on Friday, months after Kiran Patel, a native of Ahmedabad, was detained in Jammu and Kashmir from a five-star hotel for impersonating a senior official from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). In addition to providing hospitality, Patel had obtained security protection by deceiving Valley officials.
According to the officer from the city’s Waghodia police station, Tiwari initially contacted the school and its trustee in March 2022, during the admissions season, identifying himself as a director (strategic advice) in the Fake PMO in New Delhi.
The official said Tiwari, a middle-aged man, requested the school’s assistance with the enrollment of two boys of his “family friend,” Mirza Baig, an Indian Army official whom he described as being moved to Vadodara from Pune.
The trustee, who is also connected to a private university in Vadodara, was requested to meet with Tiwari by the school’s director. Tiwari’s WhatsApp status stated that he was a “PMO official.”
Tiwari initially contacted the school and its trustee in March 2022, during the admissions season, according to the officer from the city’s Waghodia police station. Tiwari introduced himself as a director (strategic advice) at the PMO in New Delhi.
A middle-aged guy named Tiwari requested assistance from the school for the admission of two boys of his “family friend,” Mirza Baig, an Indian Army official, whom he identified as being moved from Pune to Vadodara, the official added.
According to the first information report (FIR), the slick-talker gained the trust of the trustee and the director of the institution with the goal of defrauding them of sizable sums. The official said that he also obtained the two kids’ admission as exceptional situations.
A few months later, the trustee began to question Tiwari’s claims to be a PMO representative and the educational research initiatives he had described. She then began conversing with those in her social circle and quietly asked them about Tiwari, the official claimed.
The trustee eventually learned that Tiwari was deceiving them by fabricating a story about his “immense influence” and that he was not a PMO employee. The FIR stated that his profession was also unclear. After that, the trustee informed the school last month.
