Pune, (KMW News): Pune police have filed a charge sheet against Hasan Ali Khan, accused of multi-crore money laundering and tax evasion in the case of ‘ Falsification of information ‘ for renewal of his passport in 2004. Khan (54) who is currently lodged at Mumbai’s Arthur Road jail, was booked by Chatushrungi police Pune in a case registered in December 2011 by the Pune passport office. In March this year, Chatrusrungi police had got a day’s custody of Khan and had also taken a sample of his handwriting. Last week,police readied a 40- page charge sheet and submitted it to the magistrate’s court in Pune. Inspector (Crime) Subhash Nikam, who is investigating the case today said, ”He has been chargesheeted under the same sections that were in the FIR. No additional sections have been slapped. The case will now be taken up for hearing.” Police said the charge sheet contains documented evidence and statements of witness, including the officers of the passport offfice. Khan will soon be produced in the court for hearing again, the sources said.
In the FIR, Khan was booked under sections 420(cheating) and 467 (Forgery) 468 (Forgery for purpose of cheating) of the Indian Penal Code and sections 10 (3) and 12 (1) of Indian Passport Act. As per the complaint, Khan got a passport issued from the Indian High commission in London in 2004, in which the address he had furnished was of a Banjara Hills residence in Panjigutta area in Hyderabad. At the time of mentioning the address, the property in question was owned by his first wife Mehboob Unnisa Begum, whom he had divorced in 1999, and had hence no connection to that address.
