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<\/div>\nDhani Ram Mittal died due to health issues<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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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.<\/p>\n
He died on Thursday aged 85 due to health issues, police said.<\/p>\n
Named in more than 150 theft cases in Haryana, Chandigarh, Punjab and Rajasthan, Mittal had been put behind bars over 90 times.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
According to police sources, Mittal was first involved in a case of cheating in 1964 and did not stop.<\/p>\n
A senior officer of the Delhi police recalled that Mittal stole cars from the parking lot of Jhajjar court in Haryana for personal use.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
The officer said Mittal was well educated and had done his BSc in first class from Rohtak and later went on to do LLB from Rajasthan.<\/p>\n
“After his LLB, he worked as munshi (clerk) for different advocates. But he used to steal cars for his personal joy. He also forged documents and procured a job as a station master and worked from 1968 to 1974. He died on Thursday, as he was ill and suffered a cardiac arrest,” said the officer.<\/p>\n
In 2016, aged 77, he was arrested for stealing a car in Rani Bagh.<\/p>\n
“This was his 95th arrest,” the officer said.<\/p>\n
Mittal was creamted by his son at Delhi’s Nigambodh Ghat.<\/p>\n
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