Meet the 69-Year-Old St Stephen’s Graduate Who Posed as Ex-IPS to Fraud Authorities

Anil Katyal retired as a senior executive at Vodafone and lives in his luxurious GK 1 house

New Delhi:

A 69-year-old man’s attempt to impersonate a retired IPS officer to interfere with an investigation against his businessman friend has opened a can of worms revealing how the old man used fake credentials to defraud government officials, handle important business and reap huge profits. amount of money.

Anil Katyal, a resident of Delhi’s posh Greater Kailash-1 area, claimed to be a retired IPS officer (1979 batch) of Manipur cadre and had served in key positions such as Director General of Police, Intelligence Bureau officer and intelligence advisor. Union Ministry of Home Affairs. Wherever he could travel, he would mislead junior police officers and make them follow his orders. He sometimes also introduced himself as a college friend of External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar and his list of cons stretched from Delhi-NCR to Dubai.

Who is Anıl Katyal?

According to police, Anil Katyal is a graduate of the prestigious St Stephen’s College, where he studied chemistry. He later appeared for UPSC but could not crack it. He went to Yale University in the USA for a doctorate but dropped out. Police said he worked as a senior manager at Hindustan Lever, Yamaha and then Vodafone. Katyal retired from Vodafone as vice president of corporate affairs. He lives in a bungalow in the post-GK-1 area of ​​Delhi. The biggest question facing the police is why a person with good financial standing would resort to such activities. A police source said that they did not interrogate Katyal much due to his advanced age, but they were examining his bank transactions to get to the root of this matter. The investigation revealed that he duped several senior government officials in Delhi and Gurugram and got the job done. On many occasions, he also requested security during his visits to other states.

How He Scammed Officials

Additional police commissioner of Ghaziabad, Dinesh P, told the media that Katyal had misused his contacts at St Stephen’s and the contacts he had made during his stint in corporate affairs to drop names. “He defrauded officials, he defrauded people. We are examining his phone and bank information to find out how many people he deceived and how much he blackmailed,” he said. The senior police officer once said that Katyal had asked Foreign Minister Dr. He said S Jaishankar sought an appointment with the Ministry of External Affairs, claiming that he was a final year college student. He allegedly wanted to intervene on behalf of Dubai Billionaire Balvinder Singh Sahni, who was arrested over allegations of massive fraud. Police also found evidence of Katyal demanding money from Sahni.

How He Was Caught

Anil Katyal fell into the police net, probably due to the extreme trust he gained from several successful scams. Recently, his friend Vinod Kapoor was accused in a fraud case at a police station in Ghaziabad’s Indirapuram. Kapoor owns a construction company that has previously completed projects at Delhi airport and Gwalior air base. “To protect himself, Anil Katyal introduced himself as a retired IPS officer who is currently working as an MHA consultant. He was trying to put pressure on the station head and other police officers and was threatening them with cases. We found a lot of incriminating evidence in his phone,” the senior officer said.

According to the information obtained, Katyal told the police officers that his friend was unfairly arrested and threatened to sue them. He visited the Ghaziabad police commissioner on Tuesday to lobby on behalf of Kapoor. According to a report published in The Times of India, he captured some people posing as IPS officers for effect. The senior cop smelled the mouse when Katyal insisted on taking a photo with him. “When we searched the internet for any officers from the 1979 squad there were zero matches and we caught him,” the officer said. The senior officer warned people against such scams and said that no former IAS/IPS officer will threaten people and support criminals.

Katyal and Kapoor were arrested on charges of cheating, obstructing a public servant from discharging public duties and putting a person in fear of being charged with a crime for the purpose of extortion. After his arrest, he answered the media’s question: “Don’t bother me. I have answered many people. I have done enough in life.” When asked if he was an IPS officer, he said, “I don’t know what I am.”

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