IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI

% Judgment reserved on : 09.12.2025

Judgment delivered on : 17.12.2025

+ W.P.(CRL) 2047/2025, CRL.M.A. 19069/2025, CRL.M.A.

19070/2025, CRL.M.A. 19071/2025, CRL.M.A. 28106/2025,

CRL.M.A. 28187/2025 & CRL.M.A. 34409/2025

DR S C VATS .....Petitioner

versus

THE STATE NCT OF DELHI

& ORS. .....Respondents

Advocates who appeared in this case:

For the Petitioner : Mr. Mohit Mathur, Sr. Adv. with Mr.

Nitesh Mehra, Mr. Shoumendu Mukherji, Ms. Hitaakshi Mehra, Mr. Harsh Gautam, Mr. Kartik Jain, Mr. Vignesh Ramanathan, Ms. Pratishtha Verhwani, Mr. Aniruddha

Ghosh & Ms. Aarohi, Advs.

For the Respondents : Mr. Sanjeev Bhandari, ASC for the State

with Mr. Arjit Sharma & Ms. Sakshi Jha,

Advs.

Inspector Mahesh, PS- Rajouri Garden

Mr. Rajeev Aggarwal, Mr. Ankit Gupta, Mr. Mayank Kamra & Mr. Manbhav Mittal,

Advs. for R4

Mr. Naresh Aggarwal – R4/ Complainant in

person (through VC)

CORAM

HON’BLE MR JUSTICE AMIT MAHAJAN

JUDGMENT

1. The present petition is filed under Article 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India read with Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 for quashing of the proceedings in FIR No. 359/2025, dated 27.06.2025 registered at Police Station Rajouri Garden for the offences under Sections 420/468/471 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (‘IPC’).

2. Briefly stated, on 15.05.2025, a request letter was submitted by Naresh Aggarwal to Registrar of Societies seeking certified copies of the full record maintained in Registrar office pertaining to Strength India Educational Society. He allegedly noticed manipulation in the list of members of Governing Body whereby one Prof Anuradha Jain’s name was inserted as Secretary.

3. It is alleged that on 16.06.2025, Naresh Aggarwal, once again did an inspection of the record file in the Registrar office and noticed a purported document alleged to be minutes of special meeting of Society dated 15.05.2021, by which Anuradha Jain has been shown to be appointed as alleged Secreatary of the Society. This document was not part of the earlier certified copies provided on 17.05.2025.

4. Thereafter, Naresh Aggarwal had filed a complaint on 19.06.2025 with the office of the Registrar of Societies stating that certain false/forged documents had been created by the petitioner and placed on the records of the society named “Strength India Education Society” on a back date. Thereafter, the Section Officer of the Office of Registrar of Societies, that is Respondent No.3 made a complaint to the police, pursuant to which the present FIR was registered.

5. It is alleged that the said records contain two letters dated 02.02.2022, containing the same diary number ‘1860’, and one of these two letters contain the mark/sign of the Registrar of Society while the other does not. It is alleged that another letter of the same diary number, that is 1860, dated 02.02.2022, which is not marked or signed by the Registrar of Societies, is found in the concerned file which shows the following: a) Inconsistent diary number; b) Variation in SDM Office stamp size c) Different handwriting on identical diary stamps.

6. It is alleged that the documents were stamped on each page, not paginated and on plain paper without any letterhead. It is alleged that the documents had no seal of the authority and were forged and fabricated.

7. During the course of investigation, the concerned office staff of SDM Rajouri Garden were interrogated related to the entry of the Diary Nos. 1860 dated 02.02.2022 and 4916 dated 12.08.2024.

8. The concerned data entry operator at the time of Diary No. 1860/2022 confirmed the affixing stamp on the covering letter, however, upon being shown additional documents related to the same diary number, she observed that the ink and handwriting on the other pages differed and stated that those were only photocopies. She clarified that, as per office protocol, stamps are affixed only on the covering letter when the dak is received, and documents are accepted as per the contents mentioned in the covering