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Times News Network Ludhiana: A fraudster impersonating a police officer attempted to deceive the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Ludhiana West constituency, Gurpreet Bassi Gogi , claiming that his nephew had been arrested for drug trafficking . The imposter also threatened to assault the nephew and demanded money for his release. When Gogi asked the accused about the name of the police station he was calling from, he abruptly hung up.
MLA Gogi recorded the conversation in a mobile phone and informed the city police. Gogi said he was at home in Ghumar Mandi when former councillor Amrit Varsha Rampal came to see him. It was then that she received a WhatsApp call showing the image of a police officer.
Finding the call suspicious, she handed her phone to Gogi. He said, “As I answered the call, the imposter asked me my nephew’s name. However, I told him a fake name, Arvind.
The caller said that Arvind had been arrested for his involvement in illegal activities. He said that officials were going to thrash him and he would be booked for drug peddling.” When Gogi pressurised him to tell the name of the police station he was calling from, the caller disconnected the call.
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