An alleged fraud 'lawyer' who had no requisite degree but was practising in the Dhubri court in Assam was arrested and sent to jail today.
A senior advocate of the court suspecting Mintu Burman to be fraud lawyer had questioned him last evening and found out that he had passed the Class 12 examination and has no LLB degree and was yet practising as a lawyer in Dhubri court, police said.
The lawyer and a colleague had lodged an FIR on behalf of Dhubri Bar Association lodged a complaint with the police yesterday.
An FIR under IPC sections 419(cheating by personation) and 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) was registered against the man, police said.
Barman was today produced before the court of the chief judicial magistrate here who remanded him to jail custody for 14 days.
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