The conscience of a man who got a fake BMC ID made, to help him travel amid COVID restrictions, has revealed an operation where people are using such IDs to pose as clean up marshals to enforce COVID protocols and take money from people. When Rohit Yadav got the ID made for a few hundred rupees, he also got to know of the operation being managed by the people who made the ID. Yadav then wrote to Charkop police about it and sent copies of his own ID.

The operation of fake clean-up marshals is allegedly being run in the name of a genuine company, Sanik Intelligence and Security Pvt Ltd. Three days ago, Charkop police received the letter from Yadav claiming Sainik Intelligence and Security’s ‘marshals’ in R South ward (Kandivli E, Charkop) are fraudsters with fake BMC IDs. The letter claimed that the company had been collecting fines illegally in the name of BMC for a year and a half.