Man held for posing as CEO, cheating people

The HAL police have arrested a man for cheating people of over Rs 10 lakh by posing as a CEO of a company.

The suspect Rajkumar (45), is a resident of Jayanagar 3rd Block.

According to the police, Rajkumar approached gullible people, mostly construction workers hailing from different states. He showed them pictures of under construction high rise buildings claiming that he was the CEO of the company implementing the projects. He collected money from workers promising them to issue Aadhaar cards and election identity cards.

"He collected between Rs 500 and Rs 5,000 from each worker and vanished," the police inspector said.

The police constituted a special after after 15 separate complaints were lodged against him.

"We picked him up from his house, but he pleaded innocence. We recovered around 15 fake Aadhaar cards in the names of senior citizens in his house," the inspector added.