He was a judge, an IAS officer, and an IPS officer, depending on the day. In reality, he was a conman, probably with a PhD in deception, who targeted divorced and widowed women on the pretext of marriage, only to cheat them out of lakhs. His game was over last month when one of his victims filed a complaint and the police caught him for a nearly Rs 60 lakh fraud. What was intriguing is that there was no photograph to nab him as he reprimanded anyone tryting to click his photo, saying he was a legal officer.
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A 46-year-old resident of Kanpur's Nawabganj, Vishnu Shankar Gupta, had a
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