NEW DELHI: He allegedly made phone calls to a host of influential people — former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad Yadav , BJP president Rajnath Singh , Jharkhand CM Arjun Munda, BJP MP Varun Gandhi, cricketer-turned-politician Mohammad Azharuddin and Delhi's former Lt Governor Tejinder Khanna, to name a few. On most occasions, he would pretend to be a high court judge. But there were occasions when he would also pose as a politician or a bureaucrat and seek undue favours.But Manoj Kumar Jha 's luck ran out earlier this week when he was arrested by Delhi Police in the city's Wazirpur area. The 34-year-old impersonator, also known as Netaji, belongs to Sarara village in Bihar's Madhubani district although he went to school and college in Jharkhand's Bokaro town.A college-drop out, he had even contested as an independent candidate from Bihar's Babu Barhi assembly seat. "During this phase, he came in touch with politicians. Jha observed that politicians often used influence to get things done. This gave him the idea of impersonating others to get things done for himself," a police officer said.Sources said police were on the look-out for Jha after they had been alerted about a possible impersonator. "His calls were tracked to Delhi, Punjab, Bihar and Jharkhand. His activities seemed to span a large geographical area," said a Special Cell source.Following interrogation, Jha allegedly revealed that he made these calls about five-six months back. He also revealed that there were several cases lodged against him. The first police case went back to Saket in 2011 when he allegedly cheated one P P Srivastav of Rs 6.65 lakh promising his son admission in a prominent engineering college. He had even brought out an advertisement in a newspaper promising admission, sources said.Officials say that while Jha was involved in politics in Madhubani, he fell out with one Ramesh Das Lal. He reportedly attacked Das and injured him badly, following which an attempt to murder case was registered against him. This case troubled him a lot forcing him to impersonate judges and call up influential people to get the case closed, sources said.Sources said that while calling Lalu five months back, Jha allegedly posed as Justice Narendra Nath Tiwari of Jharkhand High Court. He then asked the RJD politician to direct SP, Madhubani to help an acquaintance in an attempt to murder case. The acquaintance was none other than Jha himself. In other words, Jha impersonated others to get himself off the hook.For the same case, he allegedly also called Jharkhand CM Arjun Munda posing as Justice MS Tiwari of Jharkhand HC and asked him to phone Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and get the case settled. Sources said he also rang up BJP president Rajnath Singh posing as Justice Gangadhar Jha of Jharkhand HC and asked him to call Nitish Kumar for the same case. He allegedly also impersonated Varun Gandhi and Mohd Azharuddin for the same case.At least in one instance, he was successful. Posing as Justice Mishra, Jha called up commissioner Darbhanga (IAS officer) and managed to get SHO Babu Barhi, Madhubani transferred, police said.Jha allegedly also posed as senior Janta Dal (United) leader Sharad Yadav in his attempts to obtain loan for a vehicle and impersonated Justice Mishra while making calls to Lt Governor Delhi Tejinder Khanna in his efforts to get school admission for his daughter.Police said that Jha wanted to get into IIT and even took coaching in 1998. In 2002, he came to Delhi and started taking tuitions to eke out a living. But he went back to his village in 2009 where his life changed for the worse.