Forty-four-year-old Devendra Kumar Mishra alias Guddu has been arrested by the Cyber Cell of the Crime Branch of Delhi Police for cheating several people by posing as a doctor and government official.

He donned different roles to cheat gullible people. Sometimes he posed as a doctor in AIIMS Delhi and sometimes as an advisor to Niti Aayog. He even claimed to be a vising faculty in AIIMS, Delhi Cantt hospital, AIIMS Cardiology.

He even posed as a top bureaucrat in the Ministry of Health.

On January 5, Mishra was arrested by the Cyber Cell of the Crime Branch of Delhi Police. Various fake identity cards of AIIMS, Government of India, mobile phones, three SIMs cards were seized from his possession.

Upon investigation, it was found that Mishra was a pathologist by profession. An ordinary man belonging to a lower-middle-class background, Mishra hailed from Rewa, Madhya Pradesh.

He has a wife and kids and used to run a pathology lab at Rewa to earn a living. However, the problem started when his business stopped earning profit.

He came to Delhi in 2008 and started his blood collection centre at Vinod Nagar, Laxmi Nagar where he used to collect blood samples for different labs. But even this business failed to be successful and Mishra took to duping people to earn easy money.

After his business went down, he started swindling people by impersonating doctors and various government officials.

He once approached DM Aligarh, UP for issuing a gun license to one Sanjay Sharma in lieu of money.

In 2016, the accused opened a clinic at Paliya, Lakhimpur Kheri, UP in the name of Sharddha Mother & Child clinic where he claimed to be a doctor and was using his forged identity card of AIIMS to cheat the innocent public.

He posed in different capacities depending on the requirement of the plan he hatched to dupe someone.