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‘Godman’ Asaram gets bail in forged documents case

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Jodhpur: The Rajasthan High Court on Monday granted bail to self-styled godman Asaram in a case pertaining to furnishing a forged RTI reply in the Supreme Court in support of his bail plea.
Granting bail to Asaram, Justice Kuldeep Mathur of the high court’s Jodhpur bench observed that no direct role was attributed to the petitioner in the creation of the forged RTI reply submitted before the apex court and the offences alleged to have been committed by him are triable by a magistrate.
Asaram is already serving a life sentence since 2018, following his conviction in a case of sexual exploitation of a minor student of his “gurukul”.

The court also took into account that co-accused Ravirai Marwah has already been granted bail and the trial is likely to go on for long.
The case was lodged against Asaram after Marwah, one of his sympathisers, submitted the forged RTI reply pertaining to the self-styled godman’s health condition in the Supreme Court for the purpose of his bail in 2016.
The document was allegedly obtained from a Jodhpur jail through an application filed under the the Right to Information (RTI) Act by one Ganesh Kumar and was provided to Marwah, who subsequently handed it to Asaram’s lawyer in the apex court.
On finding that the document was forged following an objection by the state government, the Supreme Court had directed police to file a case against Asaram and Marwah despite the self-styled godman tendering an apology in the court.
Asaram’s counsel Gokulesh Bohra said police had arrested Asaram in the case from the Jodhpur jail on a production warrant and filed a chargesheet against the two.

“While Marwah has already been granted bail, we also argued in the court that Asaram has already been in judicial custody in another criminal case for the last 10 years and he is not allowed to meet devotees and other visitors in the absence of the jail authorities,” Bohra said.
He further told the court that the petitioner could not have had any opportunity to prepare a fake document and was only a signatory to the vakalatnama filed before the Supreme Court for bail.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 1, 2023
ED summons Jharkhand IAS officer for questioning in forged land sale case

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New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Jharkhand IAS officer Chhavi Ranjan for questioning later this week in connection with a money laundering investigation linked to alleged illegal land sale, official sources said Monday.
The 2011-batch officer has been asked to depose on April 21 at the federal agency’s office in state capital Ranchi. He was questioned briefly by the agency last week when searches were carried out in this case at his premises and those of some others in Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal.
An assistant registrar of assurances of West Bengal government based in Kolkata has also been asked to depose on May 2, the sources said.

The agency had arrested a total of seven people, including a Jharkhand government officer, after these raids. The searches in this case were launched on April 14.
The action was taken under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and the agency is looking at more than a dozen land deals, including one pertaining to defence land, wherein a group including land mafia, middlemen and bureaucrats allegedly “connived” in forging land deeds and documents from as early as 1932.
Lands of the poor and the downtrodden were “usurped” as part of this fraud, ED sources had said. To launch its investigation under the PMLA, the federal agency took cognisance of a police FIR of forgery of some personal identification documents registered by the civic authorities concerned.
The agency, according to the sources, has recovered a number of fake seals, land deeds and registry documents during the searches.
This is the second case in which a Jharkhand-cadre IAS officer has come under the scanner of the ED. Last year, the ED had raided and arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal in a money laundering case.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 17, 2023
Mumbai: Four Nepalese women arrested for producing forged NOCs for flying to Oman

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Mumbai: Four Nepalese women have been arrested here for allegedly trying to fly to Oman from Mumbai by producing forged No-Objection-Certificates of their country’s embassy, city police said on Thursday.
The women were to fly to the Gulf nation for taking up jobs there from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport here on Tuesday night, said a police official.
When they produced their travel documents at the immigration counter, the officials suspected the authenticity of the NOCs purportedly issued by the Nepal embassy in New Delhi.

All four women were heading for Muscat by a flight which was scheduled for 9.50 pm on Tuesday.
But they were detained as the first secretary of Nepal Embassy confirmed that no NOCs had been issued to these women.
The four had obtained NOCs from their agent who was helping them go to Oman, they told police.
All the four women were handed over to Sahar Police Station and arrested under sections 420 (cheating), 465 (forgery) and other relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code.
Police were looking for their agent and his aide and further probe was on, officials said.

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April 15, 2023
Two BJP MPs from Telangana hold ‘forged’ certificates: KTR

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Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K. T. Rama Rao on Tuesday alleged that two MPs of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Telangana hold forged educational certificates from Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu universities.
“Looks like we have too many MunnaBhai, MBBS types in BJP,” tweeted KTR, who is also a minister in Telangana cabinet.
Looks like we have too many MunnaBhai, MBBS types in BJP
2 BJP MPs from Telangana are also allegedly Fake Certificate holders 😄 Have forged certificates from Rajasthan & TN Universities
Isn’t it a criminal offence to lie in your election affidavit on whose basis MP gets…
— KTR (@KTRBRS) April 4, 2023
“2 BJP MPs from Telangana are also allegedly Fake Certificate holders… Have forged certificates from Rajasthan & TN universities,” he wrote.

“Isn’t it a criminal offence to lie in your election affidavit on whose basis MP gets elected? Should the LS speaker not ascertain & disqualify if found guilty?,” he asked.
Last week, KTR had mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi by offering to show his degrees.
“I have a Masters Degree in Biotechnology from Pune University. Also have a Masters Degree in Business Administration from City University of New York. Can share both certificates publicly. Just Saying,” KTR had tweeted after Gujarat High Court ruled that the Prime Minister’s Office need not furnish the degree and postgraduate degree certificate of Prime Minister Modi.
The court had set aside the order of the Chief Information Commission (CIC) directing the Public Information Officer (PIO) of PMO and PIOs of Gujarat University and Delhi University to furnish details of Modi’s graduate and postgraduate degrees.
Meanwhile, the BRS leader also took a dig at the Prime Minister for his direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) not to spare any corrupt person.

“With exceptions of ……,” tweeted KTR, who posted a video clip of Modi’s speech at CBI’s diamond jubilee celebrations.
“Joke of the century,” added the BRS leader.

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April 4, 2023
BJP leader arrested in Amethi for selling land to police on forged documents

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Amethi: A local BJP leader has been arrested here on Tuesday for allegedly selling a piece of land to police for the construction of the Police Lines for Rs 2 crore with the help of forged documents, while he had already taken a loan of Rs 78 lakh against it.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Elamaran G. said that BJP leader Om Prakash alias Prakash Mishra had committed forgery and a case had been registered against him.
The SP also said the accused had taken a loan from the Bank of India by mortgaging his land. However, through forged documents, he sold the land for the construction of Police Lines. The land is located in Chauhanpur village under Sadar tehsil in Amethi’s Gauriganj.
On July 27, 2017, Mishra had executed a sale deed of 0.253 square metre land. Before selling the land, he had taken a loan of Rs 78 lakh from the bank by mortgaging the land.
After executing the sale deed, the BJP leader received a payment of Rs 1.97 crore from the Amethi police.
During the registry, Prakash did not give any information on whether there was any loan or outstanding dues against it.
In January this year, the recovery officer at the Debts Recovery Tribunal, Allahabad (Prayagraj) had sent a recovery notice, following which the matter came to light.
Based on the complaint lodged by the Reserve Inspector at Police Lines, Amethi, a case has been registered against Mishra.

The case has been registered under sections 409 (criminal breach of trust), 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will, etc.), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document or electronic record) of the Indian Penal Code.
Amethi district’s BJP chief Durgesh Tripathi said that Mishra is a party worker and a case has been registered against him.
He said the law will take its own course, and if found guilty, action will be initiated against Mishra.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 28, 2023