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Updated on Jan 8, at 12.53 p.m.

The CBI has filed a charge sheet against Mayank Tiwari, accused of posing as a fake PMO official, in the special CBI court after around three months of investigation for threatening an eye specialist doctor. Tiwari was accused of posing as a fake PMO official in the charge sheet.

Upon uncovering this case in October 2023, the CBI investigated several locations in Ahmedabad and Indore, where they confiscated many documents.

Updated on Oct 18, 2023, at 5.18 p.m.

Recently, numerous cases of individuals posing as officials from central or state secretariat have emerged.

Another such case has once again created a stir amongst the central agencies, where a Vadodara man, posing as an official from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), carried out many ‘under-the-table’ jobs, misusing the powers his makeshift position provided him.

Fake PMO official threatened famous eye specialist

On Oct 17, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a complaint against Mayank Tiwari. Tiwari, while impersonating  a PMO official, threatened Dr Adil Agarwal at Dr Agarwal’s Eye Hospital to resolve  a ₹16.43 cr high court matter with a doctor-duo from Indore.

In July 2022, the high court had ordered the doctor-duo from Indore to pay Dr Agarwal a settlement amount of ₹16.43 cr, after he had won an arbitration case against the two over an agreement dispute.

As per the CBI complaint, Tiwari was brought into this matter by the duo after the high court order, and he impersonated the director in the government advisory at the PMO and made threatening messages and calls to Dr Agarwal to “settle the matter”.

How was CBI prompted?

Chirag Panchal, the under secretary at the PMO, complained to the CBI’s joint director, New Delhi, in Sept 2022 regarding Tiwari’s illicit businesses.

Panchal’s complaint stated that there was  no person of Tiwari’s name working for the PMO, and there was no position like the one Tiwari claimed. This led Panchal to request for an investigation.

History-sheeter Mayank Tiwari

Tiwari had previously been nabbed for posing as a fake director of strategic advisory in the PMO for admission of a friend’s child into a Vadodara school.

He duped the school trustees and misused his position, after which a complaint was filed against him at Vadodara’s Waghodia police station. He was even arrested by the police in June this year.

As per several reports, CBI has also discovered that Tiwari used his fake identity to avail of oxygen and hospital beds for his friends during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Adding to his set-up of a fake PMO official was an Ashok emblem logo on all of his social media profiles.

Central agencies on their toes

Due to the surging number of fake secretariat officers, to nab the fake CBI, fake Enforcement Directorate (ED), fake Income Tax (IT) officers, and fake collectors misusing their makeshift positions, central agencies have been on its toes.

Earlier, the infamous conman Kiran Patel of Ahmedabad was nabbed from Kashmir, who conned government officials from Jammu and Kashmir to the tune of crores of rupees posing as PMO officials.

Another such conman, Sanjay Rai, was also arrested from Uttar Pradesh August this year.

The seven fraudsters nabbed

Kiran Patel - Fake PMO Official

Lavkush Dwivedi - Fake CMO Official

Viraj Patel - Fake CMO Official

Nikunj Patel - Fake CMO Official

Omveer Singh - Fake ED officer

Sanjay Rai - Fake PMO Official

Neha Patel - Fake Deputy Collector

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