AHMEDABAD: Police have arrested a man post he allegedly started a fake tribunal, calling him as a judge and passed judgement creating the ambience of a real court at his office in Gandhinagar. The accused, Morris Samuel Christian, gave judgement in favour of his client in a case related to a government land way back in 2019, they said, indicating the bogus court was operational at least for last 5 years. In preliminary investigation it was found that Christian used to trap people whose cases of land disputes were pending before the city civil court.He used to get certain amount from his clients as fees for solving their case, police said on Monday. He would pose himself as a court-appointed official arbitrator, call his clients at his Gandhinagar-based office which was designed to look like a court and pass amicable judgement as the presiding officer of the tribunal, according to the police. His accomplices would stand as court staff or lawyers to create an impression that proceedings were genuine, an official release said.
The Ahmedabad city police have arrested Christian for allegedly cheating people by posing as a judge of an arbitral tribunal and passing favourable orders claiming he has been appointed as an arbitrator by a competent court to adjudicate legal disputes, it said. The conman faced action and his bogus court was exposed after a complaint was filed at Karanj police station here by the city civil court registrar.
Christian has been booked under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 170 (pretending to hold any office as a public servant) and 419 (cheating by impersonation), said the release.
on in 2015, said the release.
