Boy identifies himself as a Sales Tax officer; Vasai shop owner calls cops after finding an old man's photo on card
Shopkeeper Ali Asgar said the person looked too young to be a Sales Tax officer. Pic/Hanif Patel
A teenager allegedly tried to pull off a heist at a shop in Vasai West posing as a Sales Tax officer. The owner called his bluff after the photo on an identity card shown by him looked different. The card belonged to his grandfather, a retired officer of the department.
Ali Asgar, 32, runs a second-hand mobile phone shop in Anand Nagar. He said the 17-year-old came in a Creta sporting a board of the Government of Maharashtra at 1 pm on Monday.
“He told me to show him my bill book and GST details. He flashed an identity card and quickly pocketed it. He said he was a Sales Tax officer and his senior had sent him to scrutinise files and a raid would be conducted if something suspicious was discovered,” said Asgar.
The shopkeeper said the person looked too young to be a Sales Tax officer. He sought to see his ID card again. “Though he was unwilling, when I insisted, he showed it to me again. The photograph on the identity card was of an old man,” Asgar said. When he confronted him, the boy said the card belonged to his senior. “I told him to wait and called the police,” said Asgar, adding that the boy had come to loot his shop.
Senior inspector Bhausaheb Ahire of Manikpur police said, “As the accused, a Vasai resident, is a minor, we have not arrested him but have served him notice and handed him over to his father.” The cops have confiscated the car.
Asgar said the minor was booked for impersonation of a government servant, a non-bailable offence. He added, “What stopped the cops from booking him under the Motor Vehicles Act?”
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