roped in

Verb

rope in (third-person singular simple present ropes in, present participle roping in, simple past and past participle roped in)

1. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become involved in something they are reluctant to do; to draw into something.
   • In March last year, the Supreme Court had set aside its own 2009 judgment and set six convicts free, who were earlier sent to death row. […] The Supreme Court said the six men were falsely implicated and roped in by the police.2020 August 30, “Denotified 68 Years Ago, ‘Criminal’ Tribes Still Fight Stigma, Poverty”, in Outlook India, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2020