Mohali: A high-level inquiry has been initiated into how a man pretending to be an adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh — and uncannily with the same name — was provided security and other facilities in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.
A case may be registered against him, police said yesterday.
The Mohali Police had provided VIP security, including a pilot and escort jeeps, to take the man who called himself by the same name as the prime minister around the district.
However, later he was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir by the police there for posing as an adviser to the prime minister.
Punjab's Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), security, has directed an inspector general-ranked official to look into the matter.
The fake adviser was arrested on July 13 in Katra town in Jammu and Kashmir after officials there got suspicious of him.
But before the arrest, he had enjoyed the security and hospitality of the state government in visiting the Hindu shrine of Vaishno Devi.
