‘Unknown persons’ booked for impersonating as Prashant Kishor in Punjab

Chandigarh, Jun 15 (UNI) The Punjab Police has registered a criminal case against unknown persons for impersonating as political strategist and Punjab CM’s Principal Advisor Prashant Kishor and using his name to incite some political leaders against the chief minister.
According to a Punjab Police spokesperson, they had received information that the said unknown persons had been making phone calls to political leaders and public representatives over the last 5-7, days in the assumed identity of Prashant Kishor,
These unknown caller(s), speaking as Prashant Kishor, had been reportedly encouraging the politicians to make public statements against the Punjab Chief Minister and to criticize his leadership, said he, citing confidential sources.
He further disclosed that these callers, claiming to be Kishor, had also apparently been giving assurances to the political leaders etc that he would take up case with the Congress High Command in Delhi, if they act on his (purportedly Kishor’s) advice.
A criminal case has been registered at Ludhiana against the unknown callers, said the spokesperson.