Officials said Sunny Parmar has more than 35 cases registered against him and in majority of the cases, he posed as a police official to blackmail and extort money from businessmen or politicians.
Kurar Police arrested a 36-year-old man for allegedly posing as a police inspector from Gujarat and trying to extort money from Shiv Sena MLA Sunil Prabhu. The police said the imposter has been identified as Nishant alias Sunny Parmar and he was arrested from his residence in Beed.
Officials said Parmar has more than 35 cases registered against him and in majority of the cases, he posed as a police official to blackmail and extort money from businessmen or politicians.
The recent incident in which Parmar was arrested took place on October 28 when Kurar Police received a call from a person who introduced himself as Police Inspector Ramesh Singh Chauhan from Sanjan police station in Gujarat and needed information about a case that he was investigating.
When Police Inspector Manoj Chalke, a complainant in the case, called him back, the man claimed that he had arrested a person with illegal firearms who had also confessed to a murder.