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CJI’s age: help sought from UK police
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 10
India has sought the help of the British police regarding a probe into a document which originated from London and created controversy over the age of Chief Justice of India was forged.

Sources said the External Affairs Minister recently sent letters rogatory to Britain. The request had been made by the CBI which is probing into the matter.

The CBI had sought help of Scotland Yard to check the genuineness of a certificate purported to have been issued by the General Council of Bar of England, showing Justice Anand’s year of birth as 1934 though all other documents showed it to be 1936.

The document purported to have been sent by the General Council of Bar, London, on September 4, 2000 to Sohul and Company first appeared in former Law Minister Ram Jethmalani’s recent book ‘Small men, big egoes’.

The CBI has also sought some time more from the trial court before submitting its report. The case was transferred from police to the CBI as per a Supreme Court direction and the CBI registered the case under Sections 465 and 469 IPC.