PARDEEP KUMAR Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS petition has been filed seeking quashing of the FIR No.131 dated 15.7.2011 registered for offence under Sections 379, 420, 465, 467, 468, 471, 120 -B IPC at Police Station Civil Lines Patiala.

(2.) THE FIR was registered on the complaint by the office of Excise and Taxation Commissioner, Punjab, Patiala wherein it has been alleged that the petitioner Pardeep Kumar was informer of the Excise and Taxation Department. He had been providing information about the tax evaders and under the Government Policy getting the reward amount. He tempered with the official record by forging his signatures in the log books of the Government vehicles in a single day at one time with the same pen. He appended his signatures over the diesel and petrol bills, by stealing the same. An enquiry was got conducted by the department and vide enquiry report Annexure R -3 the tempering of the official record came to the notice of the department.

(3.) ON the complaint, the police registered the FIR and investigated the matter. It has been submitted by the learned State counsel that challan has been presented against the petitioner and one Mani Ram, who connived with the petitioner in tempering with the Government record and offence of commission of forgery.