Fake flight lieutenant in police custody

Bangalore, Aug 27 (PTI) In a joint operation, the city police and an Indian Air Force team have arrested a man who posed as an IAF flight lieutenant and allegedly cheated several people with offers of jobs in the Air Force.

Deepakanthan, 23, was nabbed here yesterday, police said.

The accused, who had a fake Identity card stating that he was a flight lieutenant attached to IAF, Ambala unit, and also an IAF letterhead, had allegedly collected money from several job aspirants.

Using the card and an IAF uniform, he also had stayed for 10 days in an IAF officers' mess at Yelahanka along with a woman. Though already married, he promised her that he would marry her, police said.