Noida, December 30: In a shocking incident, a man in Noida was arrested for allegedly impersonating an IAS officer and asking officials to get his relative's work done at the earliest. According to details by police, Mani Tyagi, in his late 20s called up the Gautam Buddh Nagar (Rural) Superintendent of Police Vineet Jaiswal and said that he is an IAS officer.  Police informed that Tyagi then pressurised Jaiswal and asked him to get the work of an acquaintance done quickly. Tyagi was booked for fraud and related offences and remanded in judicial custody, police said.

According to a report by PTI, the officer said that he felt something was strange. He then put the phone number on surveillance and it was tracked down to Ghaziabad. Reports inform that after an investigation into the matter was held, the accused was arrested by a team from the Badalpur Police Station in Greater Noida. "At times he would say he is a district magistrate posted in Tripura and cite his batch and cadre to build pressure on police officials," Jaiswal said. Interpol, FBI, and Canada Police Busted 25 'Fake Call Centres' in Noida, 300 Cyber Thugs Held.

The accused, Tyagi, a resident of Sahibabad in Ghaziabad and a BA graduate, claims to be working as a supervisor in a private company. However, the information is yet to be verified, the officer said. According to the report, Tyagi told reporters that he had used the name of an IAS officer, a distant relative of his, who is currently posted in Tripura. He added saying that he had done it a few times to help some people with their work but hadn’t taken money from anyone.

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