Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Jan 27: Under instructions of the first additional senior civil and chief judicial magistrate’s court in the city, the Bajpe police have registered a case against city-based advocate, Bindu Devi, Walter D’Souza from Shaktinagar here, and Ramesh Shetty from Bejai.

The court passed this order after considering a private complaint preferred by Celine Pereira (80) from Kuntala Kambla on Bajpe airport road.

It is learnt that Celine, along with her siblings, Ivy Pereira, James Pereira, Leena Pereira and Philip Gregory Jerald Pereira, had filed a case for land acquisition in the court of the senior civil judge here. They had also hired the services of an advocate named Bindu Devi.

“Although we have already made payment of Rs 11 lac to Bindu Devi as fee towards handling the case, she has created a fake agreement dated January 30, 2007 purported to have been signed by us, but signatures on which are forged. The agreement mentions that the litigants have to pay ten percent of the amount the court might release to us, to her as her fee. As per this provision, we need to pay Rs 25,90,388.40 to her. The advocate has also filed a notarized copy of the above fake document,” Celine alleged, in her complaint filed with the court.