A district judge from Maharashtra's Solapur was allegedly duped of Rs 50,000 by an unidentified person who used the photo of a judge from the Bombay High Court as a WhatsApp display picture (DP) to ask for the money, reported PTI citing the police on Saturday.

Based on a complaint lodged by the high court's registrar a first information report (FIR) has been registered by the Mumbai Police under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and IT Act, said the PTI report.