Mysuru: An incident of a conman calling a Police Inspector over the phone and trying to extort money by posing as the PA of City Police Commissioner and later backtracking after the Inspector became alert, has been reported in city.
On Thursday, Jayalakshmipuram Inspector B.G. Prakash, who was deputed at Udayagiri, following the recent riots there, received a call in the morning and the person on the other end, who introduced himself as the PA of the Police Commissioner told the Inspector that he would be sending a visually challenged person to him and asked Inspector to give the visually challenged person Rs.2,000 as per the Police Commissioner’s order.
