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FOOLING THE POWERFUL

A Lutyens’ Delhi address, retired bureaucrats and army officers on the advisory board of his foundation, social media profiles crammed with pictures with the who’s who, going right up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Meet Sanjay Rai ‘Sherpuria’, the businessman arrested in Kanpur on April 26, on charges of cheating and forgery. Those phrases, in fact, seem inadequate given the scale of his black ops. Compared to the intricate web of deceit Sherpuria wove, even the con pulled by Gujarat-based “PMO man” Kiran Patel, who took the Jammu and Kashmir administration for a ride for

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