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A man, posing as an IAS officer, was arrested for allegedly duping several vendors of more than Rs 2 crore across the country under the guise of the Centre’s Rashtriya Gramin Saksharta Mission (RGSM) scheme, police said on Monday.

The accused, identified as Saurabh Singh, an office bearer of the fake trust, was arrested from Lucknow on September 15 following sustained surveillance and raids in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. His associates — Ratnakar alias Karunakar Upadhyay and Anita Upadhyay — were arrested in July.

“According to investigators, the accused created a trust and a website resembling a government scheme, published fake tenders and even used forged letterheads claiming RGSM to be ‘a Government of India undertaking’,” Additional Commissioner of Police (Ec

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