AI tool ChatGPT was allegedly used to create fake PMO credentials and official documents by a 24-year-old man arrested after claiming to be a Prime Minister’s Office official during a confrontation with security guards at a luxury mall in Mumbai on Monday.
After hearing both sides, the court held that the grounds cited in the remand report did not justify extending police custody and sent Parikh and Kunde to judicial custody. Police later clarified that the incident had no connection with the prime minister’s scheduled event the following day. The police submitted while opposing bail for Rohan Parikh and his associate Dilip Kunde, 49, at the end of their custodial remand, PTI reported. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate D S Khedekar of the Esplanade Court rejected the police’s plea for further custody and sent both accused to 14 days in judicial custody.
Police told the court that multiple forged English-language documents linked to the PMO were recovered during a search of Parikh’s residence. Police said the documents were created using ChatGPT . “Parikh has confessed to fabricating the fake PMO ID and related official documents using ChatGPT since 2025 to elevate his social standing and boost his self-esteem within his family and social circles,” the police said in their remand application. Maneshinde told the court that police had already seized the accused’s mobile phones, laptop and various other documents, leaving nothing further to be recovered. “Nothing further remains to be seized from the accused,” he argued.
