KOLKATA: After a fake IAS officer and fake CBI special counsel, now a fake ED officer was arrested by the detective department from Esplanade on Friday. The man posing posing as a senior ED officer called up Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen in an attempt to dupe him. The accused — identified as Chandan Roy (38), resident of Dum Dum — had allegedly called Sen and introduced himself as a senior ED official.
The accused Roy, who introduced himself as Shantanu Maitra, claimed that several cases against Sen were pending with ED and they could be resolved if he agreed to a financial settlement. Sen immediately lodged a complaint with the local police as well as with the detective department too. The accused has similar cases registered against him at Karaya and Tangra police stations.
“Roy was impersonating as Shantanu Maitra, an officer of ED. He called the complainant and offered his help in tackling cases in lieu of money. A case was registered against him at the Karaya police station under different sections of the IPC pertaining to 170 (impersonating a public servant), 419 (cheating for impersonation), 384 (extortion) and 506 (criminal intimidation). We arrested the accused from the Esplanade bus terminus near 12B bus stand around 9.15 pm,” said joint CP (crime) Murlidhar Sharma.
“I am thankful to Kolkata Police for its prompt action. Such incidents unveils how the present BJP government has lowered down the image of institutes CBI and EB,” Sen told TOI.
