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Chhota Rajan guilty in fake passport case

NEW DELHI: Gangster Chhota Rajan and three retired public servants were today held guilty by a special court here in a fake passport case.



New Delhi, April 24

Gangster Chhota Rajan and three retired public servants were today held guilty by a special court 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.

The others convicted are retired government servants Jayashree Dattatray Rahate, Deepak Natvarlal Shah and Lalitha Lakshmanan.

Rajan is 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 tomorrow hear arguments on the quantum of sentence. 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 trio.

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 grounds that a district court here could also hear the matter.

During pendency of the plea, the high court had ordered a stay on pronouncement of verdict in the case by trial court. However, the high court later rejected the plea.

Deported after being on the run for 27 years, the 55-year old gangster, once a close aide of fugitive terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, was brought to India to face trial in over 70 cases of murder, extortion and drug smuggling in Delhi and Mumbai.

Rajan was deported to India after his arrest in Bali in October 2015. PTI

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