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Delhi Police files FIR in connection with impersonation of Min

New Delhi: The Delhi Police has registered a case against unidentified people for allegedly impersonating

Union Minister Rao Inderjit Singh and sending e-mails, WhatsApp messages and making phone calls to several

people, including government officials, on his behalf to

dupe them, officials said on Monday.

The matter came to the fore last month after the private secretary of the minister lodged a complaint at the Cyber Cell of New Delhi district police, they said.

The complainant alleged that several people have got e-mails and phone calls from people claiming to be Singh, who is currently the Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, officials said.

According to the complainant, the Regional Director of Chennai, Corporate Affairs, first got an e-mail from a person claiming to be Rao Inderjit Singh and then also received a WhatsApp message claiming to be Singh...Deputy

Registrar of Companies, Delhi, also got a call from a person who said he was Rao Inderjit while the Joint Director (ER), Kolkata also received one such email.

Based on the complaint, an FIR under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 419 (impersonation) and 417 (punishment for cheating), among other

sections, had been lodged early January.

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