Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Feb 3: In connection with the case in which underworld fugitive, Chota Rajan, had succeeded in procuring a passport by providing Mandya residential address, the Central Bureau of Investigation, on Tuesday February 2, filed charge sheet in a court at New Delhi against three persons.

In addition to Chota Rajan, three retired officials of the regional transport office in the city have been named as accused.

Rajan had obtained a passport in 2003, by falsely claiming himself to be Mohan Kumar from Mandya. He had fled to Australia by using this passport. When he was recently arrested from Indonesia, officials had found the above passport in his possession.

Jayshree Rahate, Dipak Natwarlal Shah, and Lalitha Lakshamanan, all retired employees of the passport office in the city, were named in the charge sheet. During its probe, the investigating agency had found that these three had played an important role in helping Chota Rajan procure passport with fake name and address.