Through PTI
NEW DELHI: A contract journalist used to be arrested for allegedly impersonating Uttar Pradesh Leader Minister Yogi Adityanath and sending solid letters to a number of public sector devices in a bid to procure commercials for his newspaper in 2016, police mentioned on Sunday.
Adityanath used to be then a Lok Sabha MP from Gorakhpur.
Accused Manoj Kumar Seth (41) used to be arrested from his local Bhubaneshwar in Odisha by way of the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit of Delhi Police’s Particular Mobile, they mentioned.
Rajbhushan Singh Rawat, private secretary to Adityanath, had filed a police grievance alleging that some unknown individuals had created a faux e-mail ID the usage of the BJP chief’s credentials.
Consistent with Rawat, the accused had despatched emails and solid letters to public sector devices reminiscent of Energy Grid Company of India, ONGC and GAIL India.
The accused additionally hooked up scanned letters with solid signatures of Adityanath.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (IFSO) KPS Malhotra mentioned all the way through the process the investigation, the faux e-mail ID [email protected] used to be recognized and its contents had been analysed to grasp the purpose.
“The alleged e-mail used to be with a request to unlock commercials in favour of an English newspaper. In a similar fashion, faux emails and faux letters had been despatched to ONGC and GAIL for commercial improve in favour of any other newspaper. In the course of the IP deal with research and human intelligence, we recognized the accused as Manoj Kumar Seth,” Malhotra mentioned.
Police mentioned Seth’s plan had no longer been a success and that he have been incessantly converting his hideouts to evade investigators since then.
Although a number of raids had been carried out at his imaginable hideouts, he controlled to present the police a slip each and every time.
A devoted group headed by way of ACP Raman used to be constituted to nab him, police mentioned.
“On Friday, Seth used to be arrested from Bhubaneshwar by way of our group and all the way through interrogation, he published that he’s a contract journalist and likewise publishes a fortnightly newspaper. He had created the faux e-mail ID and ready the solid letters to hunt commercial improve in favour of his native newspapers,” Malhotra mentioned.
Seth may be fascinated by a case of extortion in 2020 at Chaliya Ganj police station in Cuttack at the grievance of an govt engineer of the general public works division, Odisha, police mentioned.