Patna: A team of West Bengal Police on Thursday arrested a lawyer from Kishanganj, Sameer Dubey, for duping three Siliguri businessmen by pretending to be a judicial officer.
Acting on a complaint lodged at Siliguri’s Bhakti Nagar police station on June 28 this year, a team of West Bengal Police led by a special branch officer Vishwajit Ghosh reached Kishanganj and sought the cooperation of the local police in arresting Dubey.
Special team formed under the leadership of Kishanganj SP Kumar Ashish SDPO (sadar) Anwar Javed Ansari. After this, a joint team of Bengal and Kishanganj police took Dubey into custody from outside the court premises.
Ansari said that on the lawyer Mukesh Singhal, Bimal Singhal and Uttam Agarwal On the pretext of helping them in the auction of luxury vehicles seized earlier by the police and the officers of Prohibition and Excise Department.
According to the police complaint, Dubey had introduced himself as a judicial officer-cum-auction officer posted in Kishanganj. “After completing the legal formalities in Kishanganj, he was handed over to the visiting police team,” Ansari told this newspaper. Dubey, however, expressed ignorance about any complaint lodged against him in West Bengal.
Acting on a complaint lodged at Siliguri’s Bhakti Nagar police station on June 28 this year, a team of West Bengal Police led by a special branch officer Vishwajit Ghosh reached Kishanganj and sought the cooperation of the local police in arresting Dubey.
Special team formed under the leadership of Kishanganj SP Kumar Ashish SDPO (sadar) Anwar Javed Ansari. After this, a joint team of Bengal and Kishanganj police took Dubey into custody from outside the court premises.
Ansari said that on the lawyer Mukesh Singhal, Bimal Singhal and Uttam Agarwal On the pretext of helping them in the auction of luxury vehicles seized earlier by the police and the officers of Prohibition and Excise Department.
According to the police complaint, Dubey had introduced himself as a judicial officer-cum-auction officer posted in Kishanganj. “After completing the legal formalities in Kishanganj, he was handed over to the visiting police team,” Ansari told this newspaper. Dubey, however, expressed ignorance about any complaint lodged against him in West Bengal.
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