In a chargesheet filed before Additional Sessions Judge R K Yadav, the probe agency named eight persons including Lance Naik Suresh Babu as accused and put Brigadier H P S Bedi and Harleen Chadha, wife of a Lieutenant Colonel under column number two as persons who were still being investigated.

"Babu, entrusted with the task to deal with official passports in respect of the scheduled visit of Indian Army Band, entered into criminal conspiracy with accused during his posting as Lance Naik in Directorate of Ceremonial and Welfare, New Delhi," the agency alleged.

Total 52 Army officials were nominated for the visit to participate in 13th Berlin Music Festival. The CBI has alleged in the chargesheet that, Babu affixed passports of some private persons and forged signatures of Colonel Satinder Singh to obtain the passports, filed on Monday.

Five accused -- Nagarajan Israel Raja, Rajender Singh, Gurdev Singh, Varinder Singh and Gurjant Singh – were apprehended by immigration authorities at IGI airport here on November 1, 2007, when they were allegedly trying to fly abroad on the basis of forged official passports.

Two others -- David Abraham Johnson and Navneet Singh -- also arrested in the case on April 21 are under the judicial custody.