A man, posing and acting as a court-appointed official arbitrator, has been arrested in Ahmedabad for cheating people.
The accused, identified as Morris Samuel Christian, had passed an order in a land dispute case in 2019, and that very case exposed him as it was now being discussed in the real court.
Upon receiving a complaint against the accused, a case was filed against him under sections 170 (pretending to hold any office as a public servant) and 419 (cheating by personation), among others, the police added.
An initial police investigation indicated that the man used to trap people whose cases of land disputes were pending before the city civil court.
Christian would first establish himself as a court-appointed official arbitrator, call his clients at his Gandhinagar-based office which was designed and prepared to look like a court, and pass a favorable order as the presiding officer of the tribunal, according to the police.
The police further said that his accomplices would act as court staff and lawyers to create an impression that everything was real.
According to reports, the Ahmedabad Police arrested Christian for allegedly cheating people by posing as a judge of an arbitral tribunal and passing favorable orders.