Atul Kalsi, a Gurugram resident who holds a U.S. passport was arrested this week for allegedly impersonating a Prime Minister’s Office official and threatening an employee in the divisional commissioner’s office. He has been charged with impersonating a public servant and obstructing a government employee from discharging his duty.
He has been remanded to judicial custody.
According to Gurugram police, Kalsi is a resident of Vasant Vihar, Delhi, and had been threatening a junior stenographer in the divisional commissioner’s office for the past several months for not converting his residential property to a commercial one. Kalsi called the stenographer over the phone to pressurize him to alter the residential status of his property in DLF.
On Monday Kalsi against threatened the stenographer in his office, claiming that he is a PMO official. Suspecting his behavior, the stenographer asked him for proof of his identity proof. An irked Kalsi began abusing the stenographer and then slapped him. Police were called and he was arrested at the divisional commissioner’s office.
“According to rules, we asked him for identification, and he could not produce any. He then started abusing me and also attacked me,” Khulbushan, the stenographer, said in his complaint.
“The accused NRI has been arrested from the divisional commissioner’s office. Preliminary investigation has revealed he wanted to convert his property’s category,” said Sub Inspector Madhan Kumar, the investigation officer in the case.
Police are also investigating whether Kansi may have taken advantage of his false cover in other cases.