A genuine fake Thana that almost got away
Take the case of the police station in Banka, Bihar, which last week was found to be not a police station after all. For eight months, a gang of fraudsters essentially dressed up as police ran a thana from a guest house, in the process extorting m...

The fact that the fake thana was about 500 m from a real police station makes matters even more tantalising - and, ironically, more believable. The conmen and women wore excellent replicas of Bihar Police uniforms - what in the fashion and luxury industry is called a 'genuine fake' - and carried themselves about as the Real McBhais-McBehns. They got busted only when a (real) cop spotted that instead of the standard-issue rifle, two (fake) cops were carrying guns made in local workshops. Well, one lives by jugaad, one gets busted by jugaad - and one gets hoodwinked by jugaad.
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