J'khand minister receives fake calls for meet with PMO officer

Ranchi, Aug 21: Jharkhand Urban Development Minister C P Singh, who was in Delhi, today claimed that he received calls on his mobile phone asking him to meet an officer at the Prime Minister's Race Course Road office but when he reached there it turned out that no such meeting was scheduled.

The minister said over phone from Delhi that he had lodged a complaint at Vasant Vihar police station in this connection.

Singh said he received the calls from two separate numbers in the morning.

The callers asked him to reach the Prime Minister's office in evening and meet an officer. When the minister reached there, he was told that no such meeting was fixed and that the said officer has been on leave for the past 20 days.

Later the phones were found switched off, he said. Singh was in Delhi to attend a programme of a media organisation.

PTI