J’khand minister receives fake calls for meet with PMO officer

Ranchi, Aug 20 (PTI) Jharkhand Urban Development MinisterC P Singh, who was in Delhi, today claimed that he receivedcalls on his mobile phone asking him to meet an officer at thePrime Minister’s Race Course Road office but when he reachedthere it turned out that no such meeting was scheduled. The minister told PTI over phone from Delhi that he hadlodged a complaint at Vasant Vihar police station in thisconnection. Singh said he received the calls from two separatenumbers in the morning. The callers asked him to reach thePrime Minister’s office in evening and meet an officer. When the minister reached there, he was told that no suchmeeting was fixed and that the said officer has been on leavefor the past 20 days. Later the phones were found switched off, he said. Singh was in Delhi to attend a programme of a mediaorganisation. PTI CORR SMN NSDSMN