Police have intensified the search for a fake lawyer who practiced in court for two and a half years without adequate qualifications. Sessi Xavier, the fake lawyer, had even won in the bar association election. She went into hiding soon after learning that she will be caught. Sessi, a native of Ramankary in Alappuzha, was an active member of Lawyers' Congress, a pro-Congress lawyers' organization. The bar association secretary has lodged a complaint at the Alappuzha North police station seeking a case against her on charges of impersonation and fraud.