Sydney, Dec 04: The criminal charges have been dismissed against former honorary Consul of India in Brisbane Pars Ram Punj, who was asked to step down two years ago after being charged with attempted perversion of justice and forgery of Commonwealth documents at the Queensland district criminal court in Brisbane. The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions dropped the charges against Punj, chairman of a Brisbane-based agriculture export company.

"Justice has been done and I look forward to working with the same energy and enthusiasm as I did when I first started doing business in Queensland way back in 1978," Punj said.

It was alleged that Punj, a grain exporter, falsified a pest clearance document to allow 851 bags of Alfalfa to be sent to Argentina. He was also alleged to have attempted to get an employee to take the blame for the forged document. Bureau Report