Court recommends action against Tytler for ‘giving wrong info’ for passport renewal

A special court on Tuesday handed over Congress leader Jagdish Tytler’s passport to the Central Bureau of Investigation and directed the agency to take action against him for allegedly giving false information that no criminal case is pending against him during renewal of his passport.

Earlier, Tytler had sought the court’s permission for renewal of his passport and to go abroad. However, Tytler received his renewed passport on May 22.

The matter came to light on Tuesday after Tytler appeared in the court to withdraw his application seeking a No Objection Certificate (NOC) for renewal of his passport. The court asked the CBI to look into the matter after noting that Tytler has already received the renewed passport without producing an NOC.

Later, the agency told the court that the passport was issued to Tytler after he had falsely submitted before the passport office that there was no criminal case pending against him.

CBI officials told the court that action should be initiated against Tytler since rules have been violated as the passport was renewed without clearance from the court.

The court said that it is willing to believe that it was a bonafide mistake while filling the form for renewal of the passport.

But after the passport was received, Tytler should have informed the passport office that he had by mistake tick the ‘No’ box against the query ‘Is there any criminal proceeding pending against you.’

The court said instructed Tytler to hand over his passport to CBI and asked the agency to take appropriate action if any.

“Though, an FIR should be registered, I am leaving it to the agency (CBI) to take any action as it may deem appropriate,” the court said.

Tytler has been given clean chit by the CBI thrice in a case pertaining to riots at Gurudwara Pulbangash in north Delhi which led to the killing of three people on November 1, 1984, a day after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Tytler has denied any role in the riots but the agency has been directed by another city court to further investigate the matter.

Delhi court has sent to jail four men who were arrested by the police for allegedly impersonating as BSES officials and extorting money from people by conducting fake raids on their houses.

The court remanded Rajiv, Mohit, Pradeep and Rakesh to judicial custody after the police said that the four men were found to be using fake identity cards.

The court said, “The allegations are serious.”

An FIR was lodged on the complaint of BSES Yamuna Power Ltd DGM Mahesh Kumar, in which he said that they received information that on May 17, some persons will come to New Rajender Nagar in Central Delhi impersonating as BSES enforcement team.

The FIR alleged that the accused would visit houses on the pretext of raids against electricity theft or meter tampering and would extort money by posing as BSES officials. The complainant said that their team went to the spot and found that the four men were checking the meter box of a house. When the accused could not give any satisfactory reply, the BSES team informed the police and the four men were arrested.

HTC