Hyderabad, June 21 -- A 40-year-old man was arrested by the city police for allegedly cheating and extracting huge sums from innocent people by posing as a government official. The accused, who worked as a private reporter, has been booked for impersonating as Srikanth Rao, a secretary in the Telangana chief minister's Peshi office, the police said.

The accused reportedly duped many innocent people on the pretext of providing them the vice-chairman/chairman post in the state Backward Classes Commission. The accused essentially took money from gullible people, after promising them the posts, which would never happen.

According to the police, the accused B. Kamar Krishna Rao is a native of Karimnagar district. He came to Hyderabad in 2018...