New Delhi: Special Judge Kaveri Baweja of a Delhi court on Tuesday acquitted Congress MP Jagdish Tytler and defense middleman Abhishek Verma, The case involves a 2012 letter to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking changes to visa rules for officials from Chinese telecom companies.
The case involved a forged letter using Ajay Maken letterhead. Markan, who was deputy home minister, filed a report alleging that Verma used his letterhead to craft a fraudulent letter to the then prime minister.
In 2009, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (Foreigners Department) of India issued guidelines on visa extension for foreigners, according to which all foreigners in India on business visas were required to renew their visas in 2009 after the expiry of their existing visas Leave the country before October.
The accused faces charges of attempting to cheat under the ICC and Prevention of Corruption Act. Proceedings began in 2016.
The agency claims Tytler submitted the fraudulent letter to company officials, purporting to be from his party colleague (Maken) and addressed to the then Prime Minister.
The CBI claimed that its investigation found that Tytler knowingly collaborated with Abhishek Verma in an attempt to defraud the Chinese company.
In a separate case, the CBI arrested Verma and his wife Anca Neascu in 2012, claiming they had received $530,000 from Rheinmetall Air Defense to convince the Defense Ministry not to move the company to German companies blacklisted. The couple were cleared of all charges in 2017.
