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ToI feed, dated 19th June 2007.
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Pakistan spy Munir Ahmed, already undergoing a prison-ter m for espionage, was sentenced on Monday by a city court to seven years rigorous imprisonment for cheating, forgery and furnishing forged documents for procurement of an Indian passport.
Two co-accused in the case, Munne Khan and Manish Chaudhary both Indian nationals have been sentenced to five years and two years of rigorous imprisonment respectively.
Keeping in view the nature of the offence and the manner in which it has been committed after due planning, in indifference to its effect on national security, the accused deserve no leniency and a deterrent punishment is required to be meted out to them, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Kamini Lau said in her order.
Ahmed and co-accused Munne Khan and Manish Chaudhary were convicted under sections 420, 468, 471 and section 12(b) of the Indian Passport Act by the court on June 13. Ahmed was arrested from Jaipur in March 2001, and was later convicted by a Jaipur court for stealing national defence secrets which he passed on to Pakistan. He entered India through the Indo-Nepal border in May 1997. His stay in India was facilitated by co-accused Munne Khan, a resident of Tundla in Ferozabad district, Uttar Pradesh. Once in Tundla, Ahmed assumed a fictitious name, Mahendra Singh Chaher.
He later shifted to Delhi where he is said to have come in contact with co-accused Manish Chaudhary, an official with Gurgaon based Citi Land Travels.
He then applied for a passport in Delhi and submitting a fake ration card and other documents, managed to get an Indian passport in January 1999.
According to the prosecution, it was Chaudhary who procured all forged documents required for the passport.
toireporter@timesgroup.com
Kashif
Pak spy gets 7-year RI
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Pakistan spy Munir Ahmed, already undergoing a prison-ter m for espionage, was sentenced on Monday by a city court to seven years rigorous imprisonment for cheating, forgery and furnishing forged documents for procurement of an Indian passport.
Two co-accused in the case, Munne Khan and Manish Chaudhary both Indian nationals have been sentenced to five years and two years of rigorous imprisonment respectively.
Keeping in view the nature of the offence and the manner in which it has been committed after due planning, in indifference to its effect on national security, the accused deserve no leniency and a deterrent punishment is required to be meted out to them, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Kamini Lau said in her order.
Ahmed and co-accused Munne Khan and Manish Chaudhary were convicted under sections 420, 468, 471 and section 12(b) of the Indian Passport Act by the court on June 13. Ahmed was arrested from Jaipur in March 2001, and was later convicted by a Jaipur court for stealing national defence secrets which he passed on to Pakistan. He entered India through the Indo-Nepal border in May 1997. His stay in India was facilitated by co-accused Munne Khan, a resident of Tundla in Ferozabad district, Uttar Pradesh. Once in Tundla, Ahmed assumed a fictitious name, Mahendra Singh Chaher.
He later shifted to Delhi where he is said to have come in contact with co-accused Manish Chaudhary, an official with Gurgaon based Citi Land Travels.
He then applied for a passport in Delhi and submitting a fake ration card and other documents, managed to get an Indian passport in January 1999.
According to the prosecution, it was Chaudhary who procured all forged documents required for the passport.
toireporter@timesgroup.com
