Overview

• An FIR was registered on October 2 based on a complaint from Anil Sharma, an assistant director in the Prime Minister’s Office.
• P Rama Rao of Rajinder Nagar has been booked under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for cheating, personation and forgery, along with provisions of the Information Technology Act.
• The FIR details a May 1 letter on purported PMO letterhead to Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams seeking Suprabhatam Darshan on May 10 and three AC double rooms for 10 people.
• Symbiosis International University reported a call from a person posing as a PMO joint secretary seeking an MBA admission, which the PMO verified as fraudulent.
• A separate letter to the Mysuru tahsildar used the same mobile number cited in the Symbiosis approach, and CBI’s Special Crime unit has begun its probe with no arrests reported so far.