Bengaluru: A man, who impersonated as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative from the US and as an airline pilot from the UK on different occasions, has been arrested by the CCB police.
Prateek Mathur (28), the arrested person, has been accused of befriending many young women by posing as a CIA operative on a secret mission in India. He possessed a fake passport from the UK and impressed gullible females. He also created fictitious emails from and letterheads of the CIA to impress his victims.
Using a software called Keylogger, he is said to have hacked their email accounts and downloaded their photographs. He is also accused of having had intimate pictures with them, which he circulated on the Internet. While he posed as a CIA agent with some, for others he was an airline pilot named Robin Peter. He also took large amounts of money from them.
The police have suspected that he might have had sexual relationships with many women after blackmailing them. For fear of stigma and adverse publicity, most of them hesitated to complain.
However, one of the women victims, hailing from J P Nagar who had been cheated of Rs 2 lakh, took courage to file a complaint. On the basis of her complaint, Mathur was arrested on Tuesday, said Abhishek Goyal, DCP (crime), Bengaluru city.
On being arrested, he has claimed to be a lawyer from Mumbai. The police suspect that it could be a false claim aimed at putting the police on the defensive. They are checking his antecedents from their Mumbai counterparts.
Mathur has been booked under sections 419, 420, 465, 468 and 471 of the IPC and sections 66 and 66D of the IT Act.
