Dhani Ram Mittal: Thief Who Posed As Judge, Bailed Out Criminals, Dies At 85

New Delhi: 

From posing as a judge and granting bail to undertrials to stealing fancy cars for personal commute, Dhani Ram Mittal had several capers to his name in his decades-long career in crime.

He died on Thursday aged 85 due to health issues, police said.

Named in more than 150 theft cases in Haryana, Chandigarh, Punjab and Rajasthan, Mittal had been put behind bars over 90 times.

His crime list is long, he was directly involved in more than 1,000 cases of theft, cheating, impersonation and forgery in his lifetime,” a senior police officer, who did not wish to be named, said.

According to police sources, Mittal was first involved in a case of cheating in 1964 and did not stop.

A senior officer of the Delhi police recalled that Mittal stole cars from the parking lot of Jhajjar court in Haryana for personal use.

“When we were reading his criminal profile, we got to know that he managed to pose as a judge for a few days in Jhajjar and passed orders to release criminals serving long senetences,” he said.