Mumbai criminal lawyer Ashok Saraogi, who has represented gangster Abu Salem, was arrested on Sunday and sent to jail until 25 April for alleged cheating and forgery to help a client grab land, reported the Times of India.
Lawyers Sohel Kazi and I V Y Tauro, co-accused with Saraogi, will spend three days each in custody starting Monday.
Saraogi was currently representing Rahul Raj in the deceased television actress Pratyusha Bannerjee’s suicide case.
Saraogi was arrested after he withdrew an anticipatory bail application – his third to avoid arrest in the case where he is accused of helping businessman Ashish Bagaria and his father Santosh Kumar Bagaria usurp nine parcels of land belonging Ashish’s estranged wife Nickee in Raigad – in the Supreme Court.
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gory tales of disrespecting femal juniors in not new to this man.
he is no stranger to controversy
A high profile lawyer would have been very apt.
Kian can we have the list of names of his other 'Celebrity' clients?
[quote]Top criminal lawyer Ashok Saraogi, who hit headlines for representing gangster Abu Salem in the Pradeep Jain murder case and is currently representing Rahul Raj in the Pratyusha Banerjee suicide case, was arrested on Sunday for cheating and forging documents to help a client grab land in Raigad.[/quote]
Hence, our use of 'celebrity' in inverted commas. It was just a tad sarcastic, though it's fair to say that if a lawyer is described as having hit headlines, it makes him a bit of a celebrity. :)