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- Police in several states, including Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, have arrested multiple people for impersonating IAS officers using forged identity cards and documents to extort money or gain benefits.
- In Bhopal, Tripti Singh Rajput was exposed after an Instagram reel and is accused of collecting lakhs by promising government jobs and leases, using fake IDs, letterheads and a vehicle marked 'Government of India'.
- Other cases include a man in Indore who hosted a hotel party and fled without paying, a man in Etawah who allegedly took ₹15 lakh as dowry by posing as an IAS officer, and a man in Bihar who claimed to be an undercover agent under the NSA.
- The cases highlight how social media and fake credentials are being used to deceive people, and police are probing wider networks behind the fake documents.
What to watch next
- Police investigations into suspected suppliers of fake documents and possible accomplices in the Bhopal case
- The search for the absconding Etawah accused and his sister booked for cheating, forgery and dowry harassment
- Bihar police probe into the source of Manish Gupta's fake documents and whether others helped him
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Anonymous woman in Instagram reel
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“We have come here to attend the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. Since they don’t allow photography inside, we decided to film this outside”
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…in Bhopal came to light after police began investigating an Instagram reel. In the purported video, three women claimed that they were IAS officers and were filming the vlog outside the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. " We have come here to attend the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. Since they don’t allow photography inside, we decided to film this outside ," one of the women was quoted as saying. Another woman said, "Looking at our antics, no one can tell we are IAS officers." The third woman in the reel was Tripti Singh Rajput, who, the other two later alleged, had…
“Looking at our antics, no one can tell we are IAS officers.”
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…Vidhan Sabha. "We have come here to attend the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. Since they don’t allow photography inside, we decided to film this outside," one of the women was quoted as saying. Another woman said, " Looking at our antics, no one can tell we are IAS officers. " The third woman in the reel was Tripti Singh Rajput, who, the other two later alleged, had asked them to act like IAS officers. Bhopal Police investigation also revealed that the reel was not shot outside the Vidhan…
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Named India · Bihar · Central Vigilance Commission · Madhya Pradesh · Madhya Pradesh Tourism Department · Uttar Pradesh · Ajit Doval · Bhopal Police · Himanshu Panchal · Madhya Pradesh Police · Manish Gupta · Pritam Kumar Nishad · Tripti Singh Rajput
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