Lawyer Duped

A couple in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj has duped students, traders, lawyers, housewives, and others of around Rs 400 crore and fled, police officials said.

In a sign that even those practising the law are not immune to scamsters, a lawyer from Bengaluru was not just duped of over 14 lakh but also made to strip on video for a "narcotics test".

Fifty-year-old lawyer Nitin Soni, who handles cases of cyber fraud, became a victim himself when a woman caller, posing as a representative of a leading online insurance broker, sold him a fake car insurance policy at an attractive rate.

Rajiv Kumar, the lawyer who had filed a PIL against Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren over corruption, was arrested by the Kolkata Police Detective Department (DD) on charges of allegedly duping people of money.

A retired army colonel has filed a complaint with the Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) after he was allegedly duped of more than Rs 3 crore on the pretext of investing in insurance policies, police said today.

A 29-year-old woman, enrolled as an advocate with Tamil Nadu Bar Council, was arrested for duping four merchant navy employees from Saket on Tuesday. The accused, identified as Tanuja, was involved in an international job racket along with her associate Vijaypal (30). They operated through the Internet.

In an incident reported from Chanakyapuri area, a man was nabbed by the police for cheating a jeweller and making off valuables worth two lakh rupees. The accused took the idea from a Bollywood flick, as he needed money to hire a lawyer to fight a divorce case filed by his wife and to repay debt that he had taken from his landlord and friends. But ...

According to Rana's attorney Patrick Blegen, his client has been duped by David Headley, who traveled to Denmark under the guise of being a representative of Rana's immigration business.

A couple in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj has duped students, traders, lawyers, housewives, and others of around Rs 400 crore and fled, police officials said.

In a sign that even those practising the law are not immune to scamsters, a lawyer from Bengaluru was not just duped of over 14 lakh but also made to strip on video for a "narcotics test".

Fifty-year-old lawyer Nitin Soni, who handles cases of cyber fraud, became a victim himself when a woman caller, posing as a representative of a leading online insurance broker, sold him a fake car insurance policy at an attractive rate.

Rajiv Kumar, the lawyer who had filed a PIL against Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren over corruption, was arrested by the Kolkata Police Detective Department (DD) on charges of allegedly duping people of money.

A retired army colonel has filed a complaint with the Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) after he was allegedly duped of more than Rs 3 crore on the pretext of investing in insurance policies, police said today.

A 29-year-old woman, enrolled as an advocate with Tamil Nadu Bar Council, was arrested for duping four merchant navy employees from Saket on Tuesday. The accused, identified as Tanuja, was involved in an international job racket along with her associate Vijaypal (30). They operated through the Internet.

In an incident reported from Chanakyapuri area, a man was nabbed by the police for cheating a jeweller and making off valuables worth two lakh rupees. The accused took the idea from a Bollywood flick, as he needed money to hire a lawyer to fight a divorce case filed by his wife and to repay debt that he had taken from his landlord and friends. But ...

According to Rana's attorney Patrick Blegen, his client has been duped by David Headley, who traveled to Denmark under the guise of being a representative of Rana's immigration business.