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Fake lawyer arrested
Police arrested a fake lawyer near Sadar model police station on Wednesday on charge of blackmailing people in the district. Police said Moklesur Rahman, 58, who identified himself as a lawyer of High Court, was trying to establish relations with local people, including police officials, using his fake identity. He used to visit different areas, including court in the district town. Recently he took a huge amount and demanded more Tk 30,000 from Hossain Ali, resident of Sujail village in Mahadevpur upazila, in the name of settling his stamp forgery case. But due to dilly-dally by Mokles in resolving the case, Hossain became suspicious and informed the matter to police. Later, as per the instruction of police Hossain asked Mokles to take the money from him from near the police station. When Mokles came to the area for the money police arrested him.
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