<p>Both Khan and his close aide Tapuriah are presently lodged at Arthur Road jail after they were arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for an alleged multi-crore money laundering scam.<br /><br />Worli police had in 2008 registered a case of forgery and cheating against Khan for procuring fake passports. He was last week questioned by the police in the case.<br /><br />Tapuriah, accused of facilitating the procurement of fake passports, today approached the high court seeking anticipatory bail apprehending arrest in the case.<br /><br />According to his lawyer, Khan has been granted bail in the case and the police has not yet seized the alleged fake passports.<br /><br />Accepting his plea, Justice A M Thipsay granted the businessman bail on a surety of Rs 50,000.<br /><br />Police had contended that Khan lost his original passport issued by the Hyderabad's Regional Passport Office in 2006 when he was in England.<br /><br />Subsequently, he was given a fresh passport, valid for a year, by the Indian High Commission in England. He used that to go to Switzerland and Canada, police said. Later, Khan applied for a new passport in Pune.<br /><br />However, police found that the billionaire had two other passports procured by submitting fake documents, one issued in Mumbai and the other in Patna.</p>
<p>Both Khan and his close aide Tapuriah are presently lodged at Arthur Road jail after they were arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for an alleged multi-crore money laundering scam.<br /><br />Worli police had in 2008 registered a case of forgery and cheating against Khan for procuring fake passports. He was last week questioned by the police in the case.<br /><br />Tapuriah, accused of facilitating the procurement of fake passports, today approached the high court seeking anticipatory bail apprehending arrest in the case.<br /><br />According to his lawyer, Khan has been granted bail in the case and the police has not yet seized the alleged fake passports.<br /><br />Accepting his plea, Justice A M Thipsay granted the businessman bail on a surety of Rs 50,000.<br /><br />Police had contended that Khan lost his original passport issued by the Hyderabad's Regional Passport Office in 2006 when he was in England.<br /><br />Subsequently, he was given a fresh passport, valid for a year, by the Indian High Commission in England. He used that to go to Switzerland and Canada, police said. Later, Khan applied for a new passport in Pune.<br /><br />However, police found that the billionaire had two other passports procured by submitting fake documents, one issued in Mumbai and the other in Patna.</p>