Overview
- Three men reached the police commissioner’s weekly public hearing on October 28 claiming a referral from a Union minister’s personal assistant named Bharat Mann.
- Checks with government offices found no PA by that name, and the accused’s phone showed a WhatsApp contact using the Ashoka Emblem as the display image.
- Dhirendra (Dhirajkumar) Vyas, 52, was detained at the commissioner’s office, booked under BNS Sections 204, 319 and 61, and released on notice as per procedure.
- Crime Branch Unit 1 has taken over the case and is tracing the person behind the 'Bharat Mann' identity while examining the possibility of a wider impersonation racket.
- Police records show Vyas had a 2015 cheating case at Kalachowki Police Station, which investigators are reviewing for links to similar conduct.