Con Artist: Man impersonating CJ’s aide caught

Channa received Rs20000 to make arrangements when locals discovered that he was scamming people out of their money

MULTAN: A man who pretended to be the protocol officer of a Supreme Court official was recently caught by local residents and handed over to the police. According to police officials, Jamshoro University’s naib qasid Rashid Channa recently called the Multan High Court registrar and told him that Supreme Court Chief Justice was visiting Multan in 2 days and he was in charge of preparing for the visit. Channa received Rs20,000 to make arrangements before locals discovered that he had been scamming people out of their money. Later in the same day, Channa called the Faisalabad sessions judge and another judge in Gujranwala making the same claim and received  Rs15,000 from each of them. Channa and his 3 accomplices was caught after the judges spoke to each other and discovered that there was no such scheduled visit.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 3^rd, 2011.