Man Poses as Fake Gujarat CMO Official, Arrested for Threatening GST Officer

A man has been apprehended for impersonating a fictitious official from the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) in Gujarat and issuing threats to a Goods and Services Tax (GST) officer.

The individual was taken into custody after allegedly assuming a false identity and attempting to intimidate the GST officer.

Astrologer-Priest Arrested for Impersonating Gujarat CMO Official and Threatening GST Officer

Lavkush Dwivedi, a 28-year-old astrologer-priest originally from Uttar Pradesh and currently residing near Ahmedabad, has been apprehended by the Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch.

He was arrested for posing as a senior bureaucrat linked to the Gujarat Chief Minister's Office (CMO) and allegedly issuing threats to Goods and Services Tax (GST) officials.

Dwivedi's arrest followed a complaint filed by a GST official, who was conducting an inspection of a company in Mehsana district's Unjha town. Dwivedi, impersonating a senior CMO officer, contacted the GST official by phone during the inspection and demanded that the probe against a particular company be stopped.

The arrest revealed that the company under scrutiny was owned by Dwivedi's uncle. He had assumed the guise of a CMO official in the hope that the GST investigation into the firm would cease.

Apart from his astrologer-priest profession, Dwivedi also offers private security services to VIPs, leveraging his political connections on occasion.

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