Even Female Judges Falling For Money Traps?

A woman judge from Haryana was duped of Rs 52 lakh after she fell victim to a money trap, on dating app Tinder. It is a general belief that illiterate people would fall into such traps and get deceived by scamsters but this case proves that even the most educated and knowledgeable could also fall prey to basic instincts.

According to the police, the woman judge joined Tinder and developed friendship with one Abhimanyu Vasisht in November last year. Their friendship soon blossomed into relationship and the judge got close to Vasisht.

After a few months of intimacy, Vasisht gained the trust of the judge and convinced her to invest money in some schemes which he said would give high returns. Believing in him, the judge transferred money in tranches, totaling to a whopping Rs 52 lakh, into his account over a few months. However, she became suspicious after failing to get the promised returns, as told by Vasisht.

In a bid to get her money back, the judge decided to file a complaint with the police but she did not do it herself. Instead, she used her maid servant to file a complaint and the police registered the FIR in the maid’s name. Later, the police arrested the accused Vasisht and remanded him to judicial custody.

During interrogation, the additional sessions judge pointed to the evidence which showed that all the transactions were done from the woman judge’s bank accounts but not from that of the maid servant, in whose name the FIR was registered.

The court also found serious lapses in the probe and felt that the complete record of the WhatsApp chats and call records should be collected to know about the case completely.

Citing incomplete probe and the need to collect some key evidence, bail was denied to the accused. Later, the court directed the sleuths to expedite the forensic analysis of the mobile phone used by the accused and also to collect the WhatsApp chats and call records between the accused and the victim.