Judgement

Appeal (No. 38 of 1938), by special leave, from a judgment of the High Court (December 2, 1936), which in part affirmed the convictions and affirmed the sentence passed on the appellant by the Special Magistrate, Lahore (May 28, 1936).

The Special Magistrate convicted the appellant, Bawa Faqir Singh, an advocate of the High Court at Lahore, of conspiring to commit forgery and of conspiring fraudulently to use as genuine a forged document, offences punishable under s. 120B of the Indian Penal Code, read, respectively, with s. 467 and s. 471 of the Penal Code, and he sentenced him to five years rigorous imprisonment.

On appeal by the appellant to the High Court (Skemp J.) the conviction on the charge of conspiracy to commit forgery was set aside, but the conviction on the charge of conspiracy fraudulently to use as genuine a forged document was affirmed, and the sentence of five years rigorous imprisonment maintained.

The relevant facts and circumstances giving rise to the prosecution out of which this appeal arose, and the terms of the material provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, appear from the judgment of the Judicial Committee.

1938. June 30. J. M. Pringle for