Chhota Rajan, 3 others awarded 7year jail term in fake passport case
A special court on Tuesday awarded seven-year jail term to gangster Chhota Rajan and three retired public servants in a fake passport case.
Special Judge Virender Kumar Goyal awarded the sentence to Rajan and others for offences including forgery of valuable security under the IPC which entails a maximum punishment of life imprisonment.
Besides him, the other three convicted are retired government servants - Jayashree Dattatray Rahate, Deepak Natvarlal Shah and Lalitha Lakshmanan.
Rajan is lodged in Tihar Jail in New Delhi. The other three people, who were out on bail, were taken into custody on Monday after the verdict was announced.
The court 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 government officials.
Lakshmanan had approached the high court to transfer to Bengaluru her trial in the case but the petition was rejected on January 9 on the ground that a district court here could also hear the matter.
The four have been convicted 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.
Brothers Ashfaq and Mushtaq Khan were ostracised all their young life because of the way they looked but they now appear to be on the path to leading a normal life.
A couple of months after HT highlighted their plight, the two Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia (HED) patients from Vidisha district’s Ramnagar village have started receiving help from organisations and individuals.
Ten-year-old Ashfaq and seven-year-old Mushtaq are now being treated at Lucknow’s Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI), which has paved the way for diluting the discrimination they faced from villagers, who had labelled the brothers “ghost boys”.