Chhota Rajan, three others held guilty in fake passport case
Gangster Chhota Rajan and three retired public servants were held guilty by a special court on Monday here in a fake passport case.
Special judge Virender Kumar Goyal convicted Rajan for offences including forgery of valuable security under the IPC which entails a maximum punishment of life imprisonment.
Besides him, the other persons who have been convicted are three retired government servants — Jayashree Dattatray Rahate, Deepak Natvarlal Shah and Lalitha Lakshmanan.
Rajan is currently lodged in Tihar Jail here. The other three, who were out on bail, were taken into custody after the verdict was announced.
The court will hear arguments on the quantum of sentence to be awarded on Tuesday.
The court had on March 28 reserved its judgement in the case in which Rajan allegedly procured a fake passport in the name of Mohan Kumar with the help of the three officials.
Lakshmanan had approached the high court to transfer her trial in the case to Bengaluru but the petition was rejected on January 9.
All the four persons have been convicted of offences under sections 420 (cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 467(forgery of valuable security or will), 419(cheating by impersonation) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC and section 12 (offences and penalties) of the Passport Act.
Deported after being on the run for 27 years, the 55-year old gangster, once a close aide of fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, was brought to India to face trial in over 70 cases of murder, extortion and drug smuggling.