A man who pleaded guilty yesterday to falsifying documents for a passport application was fined $100,000 with the alternative of eight months in prison, when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.
On June 11, 2009, Mahendra Sheeram, 27, of 710 Seventh Street, Cummings Lodge knowingly presented false documents to the Central Immigration and Passport Office stating that he was Kishore Ram, the court heard.