Man arrested for posing as BSF constable

INDORE: Aerodrome police have booked a man from Rajasthan for posing as a BSF constable after he was caught during a checking drive on local campus, police said.
The accused was identified as Bunty, 22, resident of Jaipur. Wearing uniform, he was trying to enter the BSF campus on Sunday. The BSF personnel sought his details and asked for an identity card, police said.
Bunty, however, failed to reply satisfactorily and couldn’t provide an identity card.The sub-inspector produced him before police and lodged a complaint against him, police said.
The police acting on complaint registered a case under section 170 and 171 of IPC for personating a public servant and wearing garb or carrying a token used by a public servant with fraudulent intent, police said.
In inquiry, Bunty informed police that he had bought the uniform from the store of BSF and was trying to enter BSF boundary to take a selfie, which he wanted to be sent to his family members, police said.
Bunty appeared in the constable recruitment examination of BSF but failed in medical examination. He couldn’t tell his family members about it. So, he decided to send them a selfie to make them believe that he got selected in BSF, police said. tnn