Dhaka: Detectives now arrested a man who had allegedly tried to impersonate a protocol officer to the Prime Minister to get his clients police jobs.

Official sources said Biswajit Basu, a college teacher of Satkhira, was run in from the capital’s Goalnagar area under old Dhaka at around 4:00pm Thursday.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner AKM Shahidul Haque disclosed the impersonation bid in a press briefing held at the Detective Branch headquarters on Friday noon.

He said few days ago, Biswajit called over phone Police Supers of Jessore, Rajshahi and Gaibandha, introducing himself as Pronoy Kumar, one of the two protocol officers to the Prime Minister.

Police said that he had asked the district police bosses to appoint some of his candidates to the post of constable.

“On suspicion, the police officials talked to protocol officer Pronoy Kumar about this matter. He informed them that he did not call anyone over phone,” journalists were told at the press conference.

High-ups were informed of the ruse, and then a team of DB-3 led by assistant commissioner Rafiqul Islam followed the so-called protocol officer’s movement through mobile tracking and held him Thursday.

Biswajit admitted that he took Tk 1 lakh from several applicants to get them appointment to the post of police constable.

“For this, I called the police supers over phone acting as protocol officer to Prime Minister,” he told the police investigators.  

BDST 1500HRS.May28, 2010
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