Callers posing as Prashant Kishor booked in Ldh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 15

The Punjab Police have registered a criminal case against unidentified persons for impersonating political strategist and CM’s principal adviser Prashant Kishor and using his name to incite political leaders against Captain Amarinder Singh.

The police had received information that the suspects had been making phone calls to political leaders and public representatives over the past 5-7 days posing as Kishor, according to a Punjab Police spokesperson.

These unidentified callers had been reportedly encouraging politicians to make public statements against the CM and criticise his leadership, said the spokesperson.

The callers had also apparently been giving assurances to leaders, etc. of taking up their case with the Congress high command in Delhi if they acted as told. A criminal case under Sections 416, 419, 420, 109 and 120-B of the IPC and 66-D of the IT Act had been registered at PS Division No. 6, Commissionerate of Police, Ludhiana. — TNS