India, Oct. 3 -- A woman who secured a meeting inside West Bengal's State secretariat by claiming to be a senior officer of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) was arrested in Delhi the next day, after the minister she met questioned her credentials and police traced her Delhi home and arrested her.

Akangsha Vidyarthi, in her thirties, came to Nabanna on Wednesday afternoon for an appointment with Public Works Minister Ajay Poddar. She said she was a senior official from the PMO and passed through security to reach the minister's office at the secure complex on the Hooghly in Howrah. Once inside, she talked with Poddar and other department officials, asked about the Public Works Department, and requested administrative information.

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