Passion for police job lands youth behind bars

Hyderabad: Passion for a police job drove a 29-year-old man, who was a BTech dropout, to don the role of an Assistant Commissioner, but the bluff was called off by the police. He was apprehended on Sunday.

A police team on Saturday caught M V Ravichandra, who was moving about in Secunderabad by introducing himself as the Assistant Commissioner of Police and Deputy Superintendent of Police in the Intelligence wing, the police said.

Ramachandra was once arrested in 2015 for beating up a person by impersonating as a DSP and was remanded in judicial custody, it said.

Later even after being released, he continued to play the role of a police official till he was arrested on Saturday According to the West Zone Task Force police, he hailed from Palvoncha in Bhadradri Kothagudem district.

In 2004, his family members moved to Godavarikani in Peddapalli district. Ramachandra completed Intermediate at Godavarikani.

In 2008, he moved to Hyderabad and joined in Ellenki College of Technologies at Patancheru for doing BTech.

In 2013, the accused moved to East Marredpally in search of livelihood.

In August 2015 he along with his car driver Srinu beat a person, G Rahul Kanth, by posing as DSP. A case under section 385, 170 IPC was registered against him in Neredmet police station.

Later he moved to West Marredpally, but he did not mend his ways. He also fabricated a identity card to make believe his friends and neighbours that he was a police officer.