Lucknow, Jun 27 (IANS): The relative of a retired circle officer of Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) headquarters has been duped of about Rs 1. 5 lakhs in Vibhuti Khand of Gomti Nagar by two unidentified miscreants.
The complainant, Vinod Kumar Singh got a message from a man who said that his friend, a CRPF officer, wanted to sell some goods as he had been transferred to another location.
Singh later got a call from one Santosh, who impersonated himself as a CRPF officer and told him about the goods he wanted to sell.
The imposter also sent some photos of the goods, saying they were only six months old.
Singh circulated the message in his WhatsApp group and his relative O.P. Singh contacted Santosh (the imposter) for the deal.
“He duped me of a total of Rs 1. 5 lakhs,” the complainant said.
ADCP, East Zone, Syed Ali Abbas said that an FIR had been registered and a probe was on to trace the miscreant.