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Police nab fake WHO director and associate in cheating racket

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Mangaluru: Mere days after busting an extortion racket led by Sam Peter, the Mangaluru police have arrested two persons involved in cheating the public by impersonating the director of the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The arrested have been identified as Soukhat Ahmed Lone (30), son of Mohammed Ramzan Lone, a resident of Ganjipur village in the Vakura district in Kashmir and Baljindar Singh (48), son of Jagir Singh, a resident of AKS Colony Mohali in Punjab. On August 17, they were arrested by the city police as they were travelling in a car, bearing a fake board with the words ‘Director of WHO”.

Initially, Soukhat introduced himself as Dr Basit Shah, director of WHO and Baljindar Singh as his car driver. He even produced an identity card. When the police grew suspicious of their activities, they interrogated the duo and found out that Basit was cheating women by operating a matrimonial site.

Commissioner of Police P S Harsha told reporters here on Saturday, August 24 that Soukhat came to the city to meet a girl with whom he got into contact through the matrimonial site. “He would introduce himself as a doctor when he went to meet the women. Preliminary investigations have revealed that he had cheated several women across Goa, Mumbai, Belagavi, Jaipur, Kolkata, Chhattisgarh, Hyderabad and Amritsar among others,” he informed.

Harsha also released the photographs of the accused and asked the public to share any information they have about the duo. “A team of police has been sent to Goa and Hyderabad in order to gather further information about the accused. If Soukhat was actively involved in cheating people, Baljindar Singh was assisting him by driving the car. He was being paid Rs 20,000 per month for his work,” he informed.

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