2 guns, police uniform, fake I-cards recovered from Fake Gujarat DG’s residence

Vadodara: Two firearms, police uniforms and forged documents were recovered from the residence of a man who used to pose himself as a senior police officer and was allegedly masterminded a Rs 14 lakh loot incident in Mahisagar district of central Gujarat.

Rajesh alias Raj Vyas, who faked as a DIG since long and had also posed
Director General (DG) of fire services was the masterminded the loot, and was arrested a few days ago. He had worked as fireman in Vadodara and Surat and was sacked from department of both the cities for fraud cases.
The Investigating officer of the case C C Khatana today said that his residence in Karelibag area was searched and fake documents, I-cards, police uniform, two guns etc were recovered from there. He was also brought here.

Police said that Vyas had been roaming around in central Gujarat since long identifying himself as deputy inspector general (DIG) of police. Apart from holding a fake identity card of DIG, Vyas also had a fake identity card of director general (DG) of fire services.

He had even used his fake identity card of DG, fire services to get one of his acquaintance a job in the department. Vyas had also given interview to a local television channel of Vadodara posing as DIG around 2 years ago.

Khatana said that his wrongdoings are being investigated in detail.

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