Additional Sessions Judge Narinder Kumar uphled the framing of charges against a travel agent and three passengers who had allegedly got three railway tickets from New Delhi to Baroda booked illegally and then got them confirmed using a forged letter of the then Rajya Sabha MP Raju Bhai Parmar.
Travel agent V S Bhatnagar and the three passengers - Atul Kumar, Bankim Chandu Lal and Rajnikant, all of Ahmedabad, had challenged the December, 2011, magisterial court order on framing of charges for cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy under the Indian Penal Code.
Bhatnagar was also charged under section 143 of Railways Act for unauthorisedly carrying on the business of selling railway tickets.
The case was registered on September 27, 1997 on a complaint by Railway Board squad officials, who during the checking of Jammu-Bombay Superfast Train, had found Kumar, Lal and Rajnikant travelling on berths reserved by Northern Railway headquarters at Baroda House on basis of a purported recommendation by MP Parmar.
When contacted, Parmar gave in writing that it was a forged and fabricated letter. (More)
