Delhi high court sentenced 7 years term in jail to gangster Chota Rajan and three others involved in the fake passport case.
The court on June made charges against Chota Rajan including three others who worked in the passport office at that time, including Jayashree Dattatray Rahate, Deepak Natvarlal Shah and Lalitha Lakshmanan under Sections of the Indian Penal Code dealing with criminal conspiracy with forgery of documents.
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The offences committed all four accused come under section 420 (cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC and Section 12 (offences and penalties), 467(forgery of valuable security or will), 419(cheating by impersonation) which comes under passport act.
The chargesheet was filed by the CBI which stated that Chota Rajan forged passports with help of three others in Bangalore during 1998-99.
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Chota Rajan is also accused of several heinous crimes like murder, smuggling, drug trafficking and extortion. Various cases in different states like Maharashtra, UP, Gujrat is pending against him. He was deported by the Indonesian police in the year 2015.