2012 Supreme(All) 3254
[2013(2) ADJ 19 (NOC)]
ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT
BEFORE : RAMESH SINHA, J.
DEEPAK SINGH ....Applicant
Versus
STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER ....Opposite Parties
(Criminal Misc. Application No. 40385 of 2012, decided on 17th December, 2012)
Counsel :
Ashwani Kumar Awasthi and Manish Tiwary for the Applicant; A.G.A., Anil Kumar Singh, G.P. Singh, Aradhna Chauhan, Sanjeev Kumar Chaudhary for the Opposite Parties.
Headnote:Criminal Procedure Code, 1973—Section 311-A, Proviso—(Indian) Penal Code, 1860—Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 506—Specimen signature—Disputed signature—Comparision of—Before Magistrate, applicant prayed that I.O. be directed to have specimen signatures of first informant taken in Court—Sent the same for analysis with disputed signature—In view of Section 311-A if an accused arrested in a case at any point of time—Then orders shall be passed against him—In present case application moved by applicant who is an accused in case—Magistrate erred in observing that complainant/opposite party No. 2 not arrested at any point of time—Hence, he cannot be directed to be produced before Court—For giving his specimen signatures/thumb impressions for being compared on disputed document—Impugned order unsustainable.
Heard Sri Manish Tiwary, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Anil Kumar Singh, learned counsel for the opposite party no.2.
By means of the present 482 application, the applicant has prayed for quashing the order dated 2.11.2012 passed in Case No.107 of 2012, Case Crime NO.285 of 2012, u/s 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 506 IPC, P.S. Aurai, distsrict Sant Ravidas Nagar/Bhadohi and to direct the A.C.J.M., Bhadohi Gyanpur to direct the I.O. to have the specimen signatures of the first informant taken in Court and sent the same for analysis with the dispute signatures.
The brief facts are that on 21.8.2012, the informant came to know that the applicant along with other co-accused persons had executed a sale-deed with respect to the plot no.314, 323, 317, 318, 319, 320, 322, 315 and 316 Ka situated at Mauja Kathaura, P.S. Aurai, district Sant Ravi Das Nagar in his village and he went to the Tehsil Aurai and obtained a copy of Khatauni from his counsel and he came to know that on 15.6.2012, in a mutation proceedings, bearing case no.542 of 2012, the name of the applicant Deepak Singh has been mutated on the basis of forged and fictitious documents in the place of the informant namely Ashok Kumar Barnwal, opposite party no.2. Theinformant/opposite party no.2 thereafter filed restoration application against the order dated 15.6.2012 before the concerned authority and also obtained a certified copy of the sale deed from the Sub-Registrar Office which is said to have been executed on 5.5.2012 by the informant in favour of the applicant. The value of the property in question was to the tune of Rs.1,30,00,000/-. The informant did not know about the execution of the sale deed prior to 21.8.2012 and he apprehended that under some conspiracy, the applicant along with co-accused persons in order to grab his property with the help of officers/employees of the Sub-Registrar of the office, the alleged sale-deed dated 5.5.2012 has been fabricated by the accused persons by the purchaser along with the witnesses and the execution of the same has been made by producing an imposter. The informant stated that he has neither put his signatures nor he put his thumb impression on the sale-deed nor he executed the same and the informant was further threatened on several occasion and also apprehended danger to his family.
It is contended by the learned counsel for the applicant that the FIR of the incident was lodged by the informant on 21.8.2012, though he came to know to knowledge about execution of the sale-deed on 21.8.2012 and there is no explanation for the delay given by the informant as to why no FIR was lodged against the applicant and other accused persons for the last 10 days after coming to know about the execution of the sale-deed in question on 21.8.2012.
It is further contended that the applicant has invested the huge amount to the tune of Rs.1,30,00,000/- in lieu of the property in dispute and also paid Rs.6,30,000/- as stamp duty being a bonafide purchaser of the agricultural land from the informant. The applicant neither manipulated anything nor obtained the land on the basis of forged and fictitious documents nor created any imposter in order to grab the land in dispute nor he is a land mafia. It is further submitted that during investigation, the I.O has not sent the actual signatures of the informant/opposite party no.2 Ashok Kumar and has sent the left thumb impression of some other persons in order to create false evidence against the applicant. He pointed out that the said thumb impression was not produced before any court nor any procedure has been followed up for taking thumb impression as has been provided under the law. Hence the applicant had moved an application on 8.10.2012 u/s 311 A Cr.P.C before the Magistrate with a prayer that the informant/opposite party no.2 be summoned in the court and his thumb impression and finger prints and signatures may be obtained before the Court and sent for it's examination to the a