Man held for posing as election official
Salem (TN), May 1: A dismissed Taluk office assistant has been arrested after he attempted to extort money from a TASMAC-run liquor outlet in Veeranam here by posing as a election flying squad official, police said today.
29-year
old
Prabhu,
who
was
dismissed
as
office
assistant
in
the
Taluk
office
in
Kallakurchi,
came
to
the
TASMAC
shop
last
night
posing
himself
as
an
election
official
and
asked
for
accounts
to
scrutinise
them.
After the staff showed him the books, he demanded money following which the former got suspicion and asked him to show his ID card. As he did not have an ID card, he ran away from there.
But the passersby chased and nabbed him. He was later arrested and further investigations were on, police said.
PTI
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