Punjab Police has arrested Constable Manjinder Singh ford uping several persons by impersonating as PA to the Chief Minister, and using the Truecaller app to falsely project him as senior officer of various designations.DGP Dinkar Gupta has directed SpecialDGP Punjab Armed Police to dismiss theconstable, who has been found to beindulging in criminal acts and wasacquitted in three different cases onearlier occasion. Recruited as aconstable in Punjab Police in 2006, thecop was at present deployed as a SentryGuard at 1st IRB near 21 No. Overbridge,Patiala.Gupta said the police initiated actionafter Vijay N Zade, Secretary Expenditureand Director Mining, informed that hehad been getting calls from a personclaiming that he was speaking from CM'sresidence. When it was checked, it wasfound that no such person was on dutyin CM's residence or office. However, TheTruecaller showed that the call hademanated from “CM house Chd”, Guptasaid.An MBA, the suspect used to call variousgovernment officials, and oftenintroduced himself as Kuldeep Singh, PAto CM Punjab. He was making creativeuse of technology to shield his originalidentity, the DGP said, adding that thecop was apparently manipulating theTruecaller app to identify himself assomeone from CM office Chandigarh,SSP Chandigarh, DC Muktsar, amongothers.Eight mobile phones of variouscompanies like Lava, Samsung, Nokia,Oppo, Panasonic, along with 12 SIMcards, have been recovered from theconstable's possession, along with anInnova car, copies of Aadhar, voter cardsand marksheets of other individuals, etc.The Innova car (white colour) withRegistration no. PB 11 AB 0108 had a FlagRod and VIP stickers pasted on the frontglass, said the DGP.Among the seizures from the accused, aresident of House No. 132 A, Street No. 3,Sarabha Nagar Bhadson Road, Patiala,were 2 Aadhar cards (in the names ofKamlesh Chaudhary and Jagtar Singh),Voter ID card of Jagtar Singh, Photo copyof Aadhar Card of Satnam Singh, 10thand 12th marksheet of Satnam Singh.During preliminary investigations,Manjinder Singh has disclosed that hehad been calling up various officers byposing as Kuldeep Singh, PA to CMPunjab. A few among them are DSPMalerkotla Sumit Sood, Mining OfficerRopar Manjeet Kaur Dhillon, Supdt. PRTCFaridkot Sita Ram, Naka Incharge nearNandpur Keshon Patiala- Sirhind Road,PP Fagan Majra. A criminal case hasregistered against him vide an FIR no.300 u/s 419, 420, 467, 468, 471 IPC and66 D IT Act at Police Station Tripuri,Patiala, said SSP Patiala Vikram JeetDuggal.Further investigations are on and morerevelations are expected, including thenames of various victims whom he hadduped and the amount he collectedfrom them, DGP added.Previous FIRs filed against him includedFIR No. 264, dated 21.08.12 u/s 420, 511 ofPS Tripuri, Dist Patiala, FIR No. 234,dated 02.07.2009 u/s 323, 341, 506, 427,34 IPC of PS Tripuri, Dist Patiala and FIRNo. 218 dated 14.11.2014 u/s 379, 427, 411 IPC of PS Civil lines, Patiala.