1. Forty-four persons were committed for trial under Section 120-B read with Sections 465, 466, and 471, Indian Penal Code, to the Court of Session, Jullundur, on a charge of criminal conspiracy, having a plurality of objects, namely, to obtain fraudulently passports from persons at various places in the Punjab, to insert false and forged entries and photographs in them, and to use such forged passports and other travel documents for travelling to United Kingdom. Two of them, including Manmohan Singh Johal, were also charged for the substantive offence under Section 466, Indian Penal Code. They were tried by Shri C.G. Suri, Ex-officio Additional Sessions Judge, Jullundur. Thirty-six of these accused persons were passengers, hailing mostly from the Jullundur District of Punjab. Out of these passenger accused, the learned trial Judge has acquitted 15, and convicted the rest and sentenced each of them to imprisonment the rising of the Court and a fine of 101.00 Out of the accused catalogued "travel agents or their employees functioning in Jullundur in the year 1959", the learned trial Judge has acquitted accused Nos. 40, 41 and 43 and convicted the rest.

2. Manmohan Si