Chhota Rajan passport case: Supplementary charge sheet filed

The CBI has filed a supplementary charge sheet in a special court in an alleged fake passport case in which gangster Chhota Rajan along with three retired public servants are facing prosecution.
The charge sheet was filed before special CBI judge Vinod Kumar who has fixed the matter for May 16 for consideration on taking cognisance on it under the Passport Act.
The prosecutor told the court that supplementary charge sheet contains sanction to prosecution under the CrPC and the Passport Act.
"Senior Public Prosecutor has filed supplementary charge sheet containing the sanction under Section 12 (offences and penalties) of Passport Act as well as sanction under Section 188 CrPC (offence committed outside India) along with the additional lists of documents and witnesses.

"Put up the matter for consideration of the order under Section 188 CrPC as well as to consider the question of taking cognizance under Passport Act. Put up the matter for this purpose on May 16," the judge said.
Meanwhile, the CBI investigating officer also supplied the copies of deficient documents and compact discs containing the entire record to the accused.

During the hearing, Rajan who is currently lodged in Tihar Jail here under judicial custody, was produced before court through video conferencing.
The court had earlier summoned as accused Rajan and three retired public servants -- Jayashree Dattatray Rahate, Deepak Natvarlal Shah and Lalitha Lakshmanan -- in the case.

According to CBI, Rajan had got his first fake passport issued from Bengaluru on January 1, 1998 allegedly in connivance with then passport officers -- Jayashree Dattatray Rahate, Deepak Natvarlal Shah and Lalitha Lakshmanan -- in the name of a fictitious person, Mohan Kumar.
According to the CBI, Rajan had allegedly got his passport issued twice from Indian missions abroad on the basis of a fake travel document issued to him in the name of Kumar from the Bengaluru passport office in 1998.
The agency has filed the charge sheet for alleged offences of criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery under the IPC and under the provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act.