Man poses as NIA officer on matrimonial website, arrested

A 25-year-old man has been arrested for posing as a National Intelligence Agency (NIA) officer after the woman he was wooing wrote to the agency seeking information about him.

The Gamdevi police arrested Harshad Sapkal from Nashik on Thursday for allegedly posing as a NIA officer and trying to defraud a 21-year-old woman from south Mumbai. He was arrested after NIA officers approached Gamdevi police and filed a complaint on November 13.

The police said that Sapkal, a diploma holder in information technology, while posing as a NIA officer, sent the woman a marriage proposal on a matrimonial website in the first week of September. The woman responded, following which the two started chatting and exchanged cellphone numbers.