Bogus army officer dupes many

NAGPUR: Hundreds of people gathered at Pachpaoli police station on Monday, complaining against a man posing as a retired colonel who duped them of lakhs under the pretext of promising them a job and four-wheeler. 55-year-old Dilip Shukla, a native of Kydganj in Allahabad, had been changing his room in different areas of Pachpaoli since a few months.Introducing himself as a retired army officer, he told people that he was working as director of a construction company. To others, he said he was employed with an automobile company. Police said Shukla had duped people of Rs2 lakh so far. Till late Monday night, police had not registered a complaint.