In a particularly bizarre episode, a Lucknow-based law student has been arrested for impersonating a Supreme Court judge to gain a favour from Yogi Adityanath’s government in Uttar Pradesh, reports Asian Age..Tausif-ul-Haque, a second year law student from City Law Academy put on his best impression of Justice Kurian Joseph while doing so..According to the report, Tausif had telephoned RN Pandey, Principal Secretary of the state government’s law department to call in a favour. Pretending to be Justice Joseph, he asked that a college lecturer be given a post in Allahabad High Court..The law student even went through the trouble of changing his TrueCaller ID to show that his number was registered to Justice Joseph..The state government officials then got in touch with Supreme Court Registrar RN Nijhawan, who in turn contacted Justice Joseph. On hearing this, the sitting Supreme Court judge revealed that he had not made such a call. He proceeded to write to Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik and asked him to lodge a complaint..After an FIR was lodged, the police managed to nab Tausif in Lucknow. Upon interrogation, the authorities found that Tausif has had a history of impersonating several high-ranking government officials, and that he was put to the task by Ravi Srivastava, a lecturer at the law college..The report also mentions that Tausif is the son of a judge.
In a particularly bizarre episode, a Lucknow-based law student has been arrested for impersonating a Supreme Court judge to gain a favour from Yogi Adityanath’s government in Uttar Pradesh, reports Asian Age..Tausif-ul-Haque, a second year law student from City Law Academy put on his best impression of Justice Kurian Joseph while doing so..According to the report, Tausif had telephoned RN Pandey, Principal Secretary of the state government’s law department to call in a favour. Pretending to be Justice Joseph, he asked that a college lecturer be given a post in Allahabad High Court..The law student even went through the trouble of changing his TrueCaller ID to show that his number was registered to Justice Joseph..The state government officials then got in touch with Supreme Court Registrar RN Nijhawan, who in turn contacted Justice Joseph. On hearing this, the sitting Supreme Court judge revealed that he had not made such a call. He proceeded to write to Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik and asked him to lodge a complaint..After an FIR was lodged, the police managed to nab Tausif in Lucknow. Upon interrogation, the authorities found that Tausif has had a history of impersonating several high-ranking government officials, and that he was put to the task by Ravi Srivastava, a lecturer at the law college..The report also mentions that Tausif is the son of a judge.
