Christian has been booked under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 170 (pretending to hold any office as a public servant) and 419 (cheating by personation), said the release.In 2019, Christian passed an order in favour of his client using the same modus operandi.The case was pertaining to a government land under the district collector while his client had staked claim on it and wanted to add his name in revenue records related to the plot in question located in Paldi area, it said.Without an authority or order issued by any court under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, Christian told his client he has been appointed as the “official arbitrator” by the government.The conman then initiated fake proceedings at his ‘court’ and passed an order in favour of his client, directing the collector to add his client’s name to the revenue records of that land, the release said.To implement the order, Christian, through another lawyer, filed an appeal in the city civil court and attached the fraudulent order passed by him.The court registrar, Hardik Desai, recently found out that Christian is neither an arbitrator nor is the order of the tribunal genuine.Following his complaint, the Karanj police lodged an FIR and arrested the conman, who is already facing a cheating complaint filed at the city’s Maninagar police station in 2015, said the release.
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