INDIA KANPUR PASSPORT SCAM WHERE 17 PERSONS INCLUDING 6 PASSPORT OFFICIALS FACING TRIAL FOR OBTAINING PASSPORTS WHICH WAS EXPOSED THROUGH STING OPERATION ON 5TH JULY 2013 BUT DEFENSE CLAIMED OPERATION WAS CARRIED OUT WITHOUT INFORMING LOCAL POLICE THEREFORE SANCTION TO PROSECUTE OFFICIALS REQUIRED AND PRIVATE PERSONS OBTAINING PASSPORTS HAVE RECEIVED PASSPORTS FROM PASSPORT OFFICE BUT WITHOUT POLICE VERIFICATIONS NOT FAKE THEN WHY PROSECUTIONS 20TH JANUARY 2014 KANPUR: Defence counsels on Monday concluded their arguments in much publicized passport scam and pleaded that their clients were fabricated therefore they should be discharged. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate second of Kanpur Nagar asked the prosecution to put their pleadings before the court on January 21, 2014 so that the defences application for discharge of accused could be disposed off. The defense argued that complainant had executed a sting operation under a pseudo name without informing the local police. Law never permits anyone to undertake illegal acts to expose anyone. Moreover, the police had raided the passport office without a search warrant within an hour of filing of an FIR. As many as 17 persons, including six passport department officials, had been arrested by the Kanpur police following a sting operation on July 5. The police had claimed that passports made by this gang, that also included 10 passport touts, were absolutely authentic as they were processed by insiders in the passport office. But the particulars mentioned in them were false. Although the passports made by this gang would reach their clients without any police verification, the documents nonetheless would be totally authentic, bearing all original signatures. Earlier, both the defence and prosecution had argued the case before predecessor judicial official Harendra Bahadur who has now been transferred. Defence counsel Vijay Bakshi pleaded that under passport act, prior sanction from prescribed authority was mandatory but prosecution had not sought it from the appropriate authority. It had already admitted in prior proceedings that sanction had not been sought and that the prosecution needed to take sanction from the state as well as central government to prosecute the officials and staff of passport office under section 197 CrPC. Therefore, in the absence of proper sanction case could not be tried.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 02:40:08 +0000
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