Former Jet airhostess, 4 others get bail

Mumbai: A metropolitan magistrate today granted bail to five persons—including former Jet Airways airhostess Aliah Rizvi—accused in the immigration racket recently busted by the Crime Branch. In the bail order, the magistrate observed that “there is no reasonable ground to believe that the accused are guilty of the offence” as the charge under forgery cannot be attracted in their case.
Others granted bail by additional chief metropolitan magistrate N V Nhavkar include: Altaf Hassan Shaikh, Rajesh Kumar Trivedi, Yusuf Baig and Rajesh Ghemlawala. All five were released on a bail bond of Rs 25,000.
They were arrested by the Crime Branch on November 26. According to the police, Shaikh, Baig and Ghemlawala demanded Rs 20 lakh from Trivedi, an Ahmedabad-based businessman, for fraudulently obtaining a visa to the US in his name. The Crime Branch said Rizvi posed as Trivedi’s wife in the visa application, for which the trio promised her Rs 1.8 lakh.
13/12/07 Mumbai Newsline

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