Chota Rajan gets 7 years’ imprisonment in passport forgery case
According to the CBI, the accused applied for and obtained a passport by submitting forged documents, thereby cheating the Regional Passport Office in Chennai
A CBI court on Thursday sentenced fugitive Chota Rajan, alias Vijaya Kadam, to seven years' imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 55,000 in a passport forgery case.
Rajan is currently lodged in Tihar Jail in New Delhi, where he is already serving a life sentence.
According to the CBI, the accused applied for and obtained a passport by submitting forged documents, thereby cheating the Regional Passport Office in Chennai.
The agency said Rajan had applied for an Indian passport in the name of Vijaya Kadam by submitting forged documents, including a school transfer certificate, a ration card and a demand draft (DD).
The investigation further revealed that the person claiming to be Vijaya Kadam was actually Rajendra alias Nana alias Chota Rajan, son of Sadashiv and a resident of Mumbai.
The CBI stated that Chota Rajan impersonated Vijaya Kadam and fraudulently obtained a passport from the Regional Passport Office in Chennai by submitting forged documents as proof of age and residence. He then used the fraudulently obtained passport as a genuine document.
After completing the investigation, the CBI filed a chargesheet against Chota Rajan on January 22, 2004. Following the trial, the court convicted the accused and sentenced him accordingly.
