ORDER :

The accused, convicted and sentenced for the offences under sections 419, 420, 468 and 471 of IPC, and section 12(1)(b) of the Passports Act, 1967, is the petitioner here.

2. That on 22.1.2009, the Inspector of Sampigehalli Police Station received information that some persons were involved in creation of forged and fabricated passports for the purpose of human trafficking and that they would be approaching the employees of the IBM Company, Manyata Tech Park, Bengaluru, for preparing documents in the name of fictitious names. The Inspector secured two panchas, formed a team consisting of police constables, head constables and Assistant Sub-Inspector and went to that place around 4.00 p.m. As they kept watch, they saw five persons alighting from a red colour Maruti Zen car. A person sitting next to the driver got down from the car and told three other persons in Hindi language to go inside the office of IBM and enquire about the persons who were in need of passports and visas. The police team entertained suspicion, surrounded the car and all those persons and subjected them to search. They could recover a passport bearing number G2999124 from a person called Syed Iqbal. That p