Jayanagar police arrested a 35-year-old priest from Malleswaram for allegedly trying to implicate his US-based cousin in the name of Infosys Foundation Chairperson Sudha Murty.
Posing as the PA of Sudha Murty, the accused, Arun Kumar, had spoken to Kannada Koota in California in the USA, confirming Ms. Murty‘s presence as chief guest. He had taken ₹5 lakh from the association in the name of his cousin.
The cheating came to light when the office of Ms. Murty called up the association to deny that she had accepted the invitation. The PA of Ms. Murty filed a cheating complaint with the jurisdictional Jayanagar police.
Based on the complaint, police tracked down Arun Kumar and recovered the money he had taken from the association.
The accused claimed to have used the name and ID of his cousin in the US for the financial transaction to get him in trouble. The accused told the police that his cousin and he were very close, but after shifting to the US, the latter started ignoring Arun Kumar. Hence, the priest hatched a plan to implicate him in a crime, a police officer said.
The priest was booked under various sections of the IT Act, and for impersonation and cheating.
