A complaint has been lodged by the former Chief Justice of India R M Lodha with the Delhi Police. The complaint stated that an imposter swindled him out of Rs 1 lakh by hacking into the email id of another former Supreme Court Justice B P Singh who is a friend of Justice Lodha.
As per the FIR, Justice Lodha stated, “I have been regularly corresponding with Justice B P Singh on arbitration matters. In the said email, I was requested for some urgent help and got back to him on email, as he was unavailable over the phone. When I responded via email asking him to tell me what the matter was, I received another email stating that his cousin was suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.”
In the said email, Justice Lodha was asked to transfer an amount of Rs 1 lakh to an account mentioned to be the account of a surgeon, to which Justice Lodha obliged and sent it in two transactions worth Rs 50,000 each.
Afterwards, when Justice B P Singh informed him that the email was hacked he filed the complaint in the office of Assistant Commissioner of Police EOW and Cyber Cell in Malaviya Nagar Police Station.
—India Legal
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