Former IPS officer and wife sent to jail in forgery caseGangtok: On July 11,2007 the high profile case involving several individuals accused of having forged Chief Minister's signature on applications made out to secure contracts and favours has concluded with District & Sessions Judge,Gangtok delivering judgement on the case as well as pronouncing the sentence .
The Court has sentenced three persons, including a former IPS officer, to four and half years imprisonment for forging the signature of Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling. District and Sessions judge S W Lepcha on Wenesday, held former IPS officer Anil Khanna, his wife Rajni Hilton and Asim Chettri, guilty of forging the signature of chief minister as endorsements on applications for contract works and favours from government departments. The three were taken to the state jail at Rongyek after the judgement was pronounced and their bail plea rejected. The three were arrested in February 2005 for forging the signature of Chamling for securing contracts from schools and favours from government departments, SP (Crime) D B Thapa said. Asim Chettri, a co-accused in the case along with Khanna and his wife, is the man from whose house rubber stamps and other vital evidences had been found, the SP added.
With this Crime branch of Sikkim police investigating the case has successfully concluded the matter which became one time talk of town. The team was headed by DSP Nedup Wangdi as its investigating officer.
The judge declared while pronouncing the judgement that three guilty of forging the signature of Chief Minister pawan Chamling as endorsements on applications for contract works,including a request to operate a 2 digit lottery.
