Chhota Rajan fake passport case: HC seeks CBI's response

June 30, 2016 03:23

The Delhi High Court today sought response of CBI on a retired government official's plea, who is facing trial in a fake passport case along with gangster Chhota Rajan, seeking quashing of criminal and corruption charges framed against her.

Justice I S Mehta issued notice to the agency asking it to file their response before July 8 on a plea by a 62-year- old Lalitha Lakshmanan, a former public servant who worked in a regional passport office at Bengaluru.

She sought quashing of the charges of cheating, forgery, criminal conspiracy under the IPC and Prevention of Corruption Act framed against her by a trial court here on June 8.

Similar charges have also been framed against two other public servants -- Jayashree Dattatray Rahate and Deepak Natvarlal Shah -- who have also been accused of helping Rajan procure a fake passport in the name of Mohan Kumar.

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