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By India Today News Desk: A man has been arrested by Vadodara Police for duping people while posing as an official of the Gujarat chief minister’s office (CMO) and president of Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City). He was held on the charge of raping a model on the promise of giving her a job. The real identity of the accused came to light after he was brought to a police station in Vadodara following his quarrel with someone.
The accused conman, Viraj Patel, was arrested on Saturday, as per officials.
It was found that he was a resident of Gandhinagar, the police said, adding that a further probe had been handed over to the city crime branch.
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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. He initially told officials 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 told PTI.
After the police checked his identity, it was found that he used a different surname on his PAN card, while there was no surname mentioned on his Aadhaar card.
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An interrogation revealed that Patel was neither working in the CMO nor was he the president of GIFT City, he said.
After his real identity came to light, the model from Mumbai accompanying him claimed that he raped her on the pretext of giving her a job as the brand ambassador of GIFT City and promised to marry her, Katkad said. The accused was booked under Indian Penal Code sections 170 (pretending to hold any particular office as a public servant), 417 (cheating), 467 (forgery), and 376 (rape), the police officer said.
(With agency input)
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