PUNE: An unemployed man from
Aurangabad district was arrested on Thursday night on the charges of posing as an MLA’s personal assistant and cheating an autorickshaw driver from
Pune city of Rs 5,500 in May last year on the promise of providing dry ration kits for the needy during the lockdown.
The Dattawadi police said the suspect was posing as the personal assistant to a MLA from Pune rural on different social media sites, where he claimed of having many dry ration kits, which he wanted to give away for free for the benefit of the needy.
Assistant inspector Nandkumar Kenche of the Dattawadi police said, “We have arrested Aniruddha
Temkar (31) of Bhalgaon in
Aurangabad district. We had laid a trap to arrest him on many occasions in the last few days and finally succeeded on Thursday. Temkar is unemployed and has done diploma in engineering,” Kenche said.
He said the police suspected that Temkar might have duped more people.