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By India Today News Desk: An assistant professor at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) has been arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly impersonating Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena and making calls on his behalf on two instances.
Rohit Singh, the accused, was arrested at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) sirport when he arrived from the UK to make calls on behalf of the Lt Governor in September 2022, officials told news agency PTI on Wednesday.
Singh had called the Vice Chancellor of the GGSIPU twice over the landline phone, impersonating the L-G, according to the officials.
In the first case, the assistant professor got his leave sanctioned, and in the second case, on September 30, 2022, he tried to get his sister appointed as faculty in the English Department of the GGSIPU.
The matter was reported after Rohit Singh made the second call to the university.
To ascertain the authenticity of the call, the Vice Chancellor had contacted the L-G’s Secretariat, which denied having made any such call and asked him to report the matter to the police, the officials said.
“During the investigation, it was revealed that Rohit Singh, an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department of the university, had made the call, posing as the L-G, for the appointment of his sister Manvi Singh in the English Department of the University. From the call detail record of the Vice Chancellor’s landline number, it was revealed that the call was made from a UK-based number,” a senior official said.
Singh had left India on September 27 to pursue some academic interests in the UK, the senior official added.
After his name surfaced in the probe, a Look Out Circular (LOC) was issued against him. Police had also booked Rohit Singh’s father and sister under sections of criminal conspiracy and the IT Act.
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