JUDGMENT

BHAGWATI, J.:—The appellant was tried in the Court of the Additional Sessions Judge, Delhi for various offences which included inter alia an offence under Section 467 of the Indian Penal Code. The prosecution case against the appellant in so far as it related to the charge under Section 467 was that he dishonestly and fraudulently signed as Madan Sein at two places on the money order Ex.P.W. 2/B which was sent by the Employees State Insurance Corporation to one Madan Sain and received the amount of the money order from the postman Mahavir Singh, P.W.8, and he was thus guilty of the offence under Section 467. The learned Additional Sessions Judge, who tried the case, accepted the evidence led on behalf of the prosecution and came to the conclusion that the charge against the appellant under Section 467 was established beyond reasonable doubt and he accordingly convicted the appellant to the offence under that section and sentenced him to suffer rigorous imprisonment for nine months. The appellant preferred an appeal against the order of conviction and sentence to the High Court of Delhi. The High Court in appeal discarded the evidence of the postman Mahavir Singh, P.W.8, as