India, March 14 -- A 66-year-old man from Lajpat Nagar in south Delhi was arrested by the Ghaziabad police on Thursday for posing as the "High Commissioner of Oman" and demanding police security and escort vehicles to visit his daughter's house in Vaishali, police said. To be sure, Oman's diplomatic representative to India is called ambassador and not high commissioner since Oman is not part of the British Commonwealth. The accused, KS Rana, also demanded VIP protocols in Mathura, and Faridabad, and was the chief guest at an event at a Delhi hotel in February while posing as the "high commissioner", police said.

Rana works as a trade commissioner for an NGO and owns a science and technology college in Agra, and a resort in Rajasthan, pol...