A B.Tech student was today arrested along with his father after allegedly producing a fake identity card of a Delhi Police constable while seeking to renew arms licences.
The 19-year-youth, identified as Ankur Mittal, and his father, Gauri Shankar Mittal, were handed over to police for registration of a case under the appropriate sections of law.
"The matter occurred at around 12:15 P.M. After the father-son duo, who live in the Rohini area of Outer Delhi, reached the Licensing Unit at Defence Colony for renewal of their arms licences.
"They took token number 119 from the reception of this office and, after the inspection of their weapons -- a .315 bore rifle and a .25 bore pistol, reached the Public Lounge II (Arms Section) counter No.4," said a senior police official.
Seeing the rush, Ankur approached woman constable Menka, who was at the said renewal counter, and introduced himself as Head Constable Sunil Kumar posted at the Security Unit of Delhi Police as he asked her to speedily renew the licence.
To support his claim, he produced a Delhi Police ID card valid till March 31, 2015.
However, her suspicious aroused over the said ID card, the woman officer referred the matter to her senior who, upon trying to verify the ID card on the department software, found that there was no record for the same.
Further verification with the Security Unit of Delhi Police revealed that the said ID card was issued to one Head Constable Sunil. A check thereupon of Ankur's driving licence gave away his actual identity.
"Ankur impersonated a Delhi Police officer in connivance with his father. Ankur is a student of B.Tech (final year) and is also engaged in a building material and property business with his father. Both of them were arrested," the official said.
