Conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar was reportedly convicted by a Delhi court for impersonating a Supreme Court judge in order to secure bail in connection with a corruption case in 2017. In his attempt to pose as a sitting SC judge, the conman allegedly also threatened a judicial officer with professional repercussions if she failed to grant him bail.
Court slams Delhi Police
“In this most absurd theatrical production of his, where he impersonated a sitting Judge of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India to manipulate an ongoing proceeding, he did not merely cross the line; he leapt over it into the realm of fatal institutional overreach,” the court was quoted as saying. During the hearing, the court also rapped the Delhi Police for its “superficial and shoddy” investigation into how Chandrasekhar could orchestrate the failed impersonation. Noting that the Delhi Police failed to recover the phone Sukesh used or even figure out how a constable’s mobile was obtained by the conman, the Delhi court said that the police dealt with the matter “with utter indifference, investigative naivete and apathy.”
Sukesh used constable’s phone to call judicial officer
The conman allegedly got access to a constable’s mobile phone and used it to call the judge’s official landline and personal phone number. A caller first claimed to be the personal secretary of a Supreme Court judge, followed by another person who claimed to be the Supreme Court judge himself, saying he was calling on behalf of the Home Ministry and the Supreme Court Collegium. Sukesh Chandrasekhar’s ruse involved a phone call to Special Judge Poonam Chaudhary, before whom a corruption case was pending while he was in police custody in April 2017.
