Roy Chowdhury was produced in court and remanded in police custody till July 7.Does the dash cam lose its value in these circumstances? It was only after they had called up Contai and Burdwan and verified that no one called Surya Bose Roy Chowdhury had ever been an officer there, that he knew his game was up,� the SSP said. “He was so confident when he gave his ID, that even our boys felt a bit shaky. Finally, the detectives laid a trap for Roy Chowdhury and caught him as he walked in posing as a top cop. One cyber cafe owner even said he had come to him with an ID card claiming to be a senior CBI officer probing the Aftab Ansari case,� Malviya said. “When we started investigating based on a sketch of the person described to us, we were shocked when owners of almost all hotels and cyber cafes we went to told us that he was known to them as a DSP. It was just four days ago that the police got the first tip-off when a resident of Regent Park lodged a complaint. Almost four years later, Roy Chowdhury was arrested from the central Kolkata hotel taking a hefty bribe. After serving his sentence, he had disappeared,� said special superintendent (CID) Manoj Malviya. “He was arrested by the Taltala police while undergoing training at the Barrackpore Police Training School. The Kolkata Police sub-inspector was sacked in 1999 after being caught red-handed while cheating a Japanese couple pretending he was a DSP with the CBI.
It was after his arrest that the stunned officers of the criminal investigation department discovered that Roy Chowdhury had indeed been a policeman once upon a time. He had gone there posing as the SDPO of Contai to collect his monthly “dues�. Luck finally ran out for 27-yearold Surya Bose Roy Chowdhury on Saturday night, when he was picked up from a central Kolkata hotel. He made a fortune by posing as a CBI officer or as an IPS officer with the state police, taking hefty bribes, staying in hotels for free and getting his lunch and dinners paid for. KOLKATA: For three years he had been fooling hoteliers, restaurateurs, cyber cafe owners and even the police.
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