Updated: Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:24 (IST) A fake IAS officer was arrested in Gorakhpur. He roamed around and hid his identity, while his mother and brother worked as labourers. Police arrested him…read more Accused in black jacket. Jagran Samvad Sutra, Jagran, Sitamarhi/Gorakhpur. As the condition of fake IAS Lalit Kishore alias Gaurav Kumar Singh’s house and his family is located in Ward No. 37 Mehsaul East of Mehsaul police station area, arrested in Gorakhpur, no one can believe that he will maintain such a reputation. He has four brothers. Lalit is fourth among brothers. All four brothers and mother somehow earn their living by working hard in the village. Live in a cabin like home. Remove Advertisement Only Read News Lalit is said to have stopped coming and going home since 2017. One year later, with the death of his father Chalitar Ram, the day of Shraddha has arrived. Leave the next day. He always called the house trash and said he shouldn’t live here. All four brothers live in a hut on a plot of land. There is not even land for farming. Lalit also ran a coaching center in the town for a few days. He taught children by charging only Rs 30 as fees. No one charged fees from poor children. Lalit changed his name to Gaurav Kumar Singh to become a fake IAS. Opened a coaching institute called Aditya-50 in Banka. Lalit took the first step to walk on the wrong path in Banka. He left home and reached Banka in 2017 and started giving free tuition and coaching to poor students there. People began to feel that he wanted to do something for society, but his planning was something else. He opened a coaching institute named Aditya-50. Children from poor families start teaching there. Then he settled well in the education department of Patna. He used to issue letters from the department in the name of free coaching. Using these letters, he even conducted entrance exams in government schools of the district. To give confidence to the students, he also kept honoring the meritorious students of Matriculation and Intermediate from time to time. When he realized that the people here began to trust him, he started his real work. He started taking money from people on the pretext of getting them jobs, getting B.Ed and getting admission in various courses. Also Read- There will be compulsory acquisition of 400 hectares of land for industrial development in this district of UP, the government has approved the acquisition. He is said to have collected more than two crore rupees from many people from Banka and fled from there on May 1, 2023. He is also said to have cheated the owner of the house where he lived on a rent of Rs 10 lakh. He also borrowed two lakh rupees from Tamanna Kumar, who ran a computer shop near Banka Guest House and ran away. Lalit alias Gaurav had a love marriage with the sister of Abhishek Kumar, resident of Ramnagara village in Riga police station area. The software engineer is said to have used Lalit’s brother-in-law Abhishek Kumar to make fake IDs, name plates and other documents for him.