Jaipur: City police arrested a 26-year-old man Sunday who was defrauding a woman by posing as an advisor to Union Home minister Amit Shah. The accused, identified as Neeraj Kumar Sharma, was threatening and blackmailing the woman, and demanding Rs 15 lakh of her. The airport police arrested the fake advisor and seized the jewellery and the SUV used in the crime. The accused had previous fraud cases in Jaipur for impersonating RAS and IPS officers.Police said that Sharma, a resident of Karauli, was a resident of Durga Colony, Jawahar Circle in Jaipur. The woman filed a report against Neeraj Kumar on Saturday.In her complaint against Sharma, the victi said that about a month ago, she befriended a man named Deepak Sharma on Facebook who claimed to be an advisor to the Union Home Minister. He frequently messaged her, claiming his father was a police officer and his brother an IPS officer in Goa.She alleged that the accused deceitfully took her diamond necklace and bracelet, threatening to have her abducted by criminals if she told anyone.The accused boasted of having several relatives who are police officers, claiming she couldn’t harm him. When she asked him to return her jewellery, he blackmailed her, demanding Rs 15 lakh. Distressed, she filed a complaint against Sharma at the airport police station on Saturday night.The police registered an FIR based on the woman’s complaint. Their investigation revealed that Sharma was a conman. By tracing his mobile location, the police arrested him on Sunday afternoon. They seized the jewellery and the SUV used in the crime.The investigation uncovered that the accused had four fraud cases filed against him in Bajaj Nagar, Ashok Nagar in Jaipur, and Laxmangarh in Sikar for impersonating RAS and IPS officers.
