{"id":164265,"date":"2021-05-07T22:52:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T17:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=164265"},"modified":"2021-05-08T10:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T04:45:54","slug":"supreme-court-govt-official-cheating-forgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/constitutional-law-news\/supreme-court-news\/supreme-court-govt-official-cheating-forgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court grants relief from arrest to govt official accused of cheating, forgery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Supreme Court<\/a><\/strong> on Friday issued notice and granted interim relief from arrest to a government official accused in a case of cheating and forgery registered with the MIDC, Police Station, Latur, Maharashtra. (Pandit Vs The State of Maharashtra)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A two-judge bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Dinesh Maheshwari issued notice to the State of Maharashtra to file its reply within six weeks on an appeal filed by a man, who was acting as Sub-Registrar at Murud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPetitioner is at liberty to serve the standing counsel for the State of Maharashtra. In the meantime, the petitioner shall not be arrested in connection with F.I.R. bearing C.R No. 361 of 2020 registered with the MIDC, Police Station, Latur, Maharashtra,\u201d said the top court in its order.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n During the hearing today, the Counsel of co-accused Pandit submitted that since the charge sheet is already submitted before the trial court, therefore, custodial interrogation is not required and he will co-operate with the investigation officer in any kind of assistance, if required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The present appeal before the Supreme Court was filed against the order of the Bombay HC Bench at Aurangabad, which had dismissed the anticipatory bail application filed by the co-accused under Section 438 of the Criminal Procedure Code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The petitioner is one of accused in the FIR registered with MIDC Police Station, Latur for the offences punishable under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 387, 506 and 120-B of IPC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The allegation against Pandit was that he hatched a conspiracy with the other accused, allowing a declaration deed to be registered, which contained recitals regarding transfer of property by the informant to the persons making the declaration, when, in fact, there was no such sale deed ever executed and registered between the informant and the main accused making that declaration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n