KARACHI: Sindh Rangers on Friday claimed to have arrested an impostor, who was allegedly impersonating as additional director of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to commit various crimes in the metropolis.
According to the Rangers spokesperson, the suspect identified as Irfan Ahmed was apprehended in an intelligence-based operation, conducted jointly by the paramilitary force and police personnel in Karachi’s Boat Basin.
The arrested suspect was a resident of Moosa Lane, Lyari, and would present himself as a colonel deputed in a sensitive agency, the spokesperson added.
The rangers officials said that the accused used the fake credentials to extract large sums of money from people with the promise to provide admissions in medical colleges, jobs and even degrees of various academic institutes.
The paramilitary force said that a fake identity card of the sensitive agency, uniform and fake documents of various institutions were seized from his possession. Subsequently, he was handed over to the police for further legal action.
Earlier, Rangers had arrested a criminal linked with the Lyari gang war for threatening a local trader and citizens to pay extortions.
On December 7, the suspect had threatened a builder n Bahadurabad to pay an extortion of Rs5 million. The suspect also confessed to opening fire at a shop in PIB Colony and was also involved in street crimes, robberies and other criminal activities.
