MOHINDER SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB & ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PRAYER in the present petition is for quashing of FIR No.68 dated 12.04.2000 registered under Sections 406/420/467/468/471/120B/148/149 IPC at Police Station Banur, Tehsil Rajpura, District Patiala and all subsequent proceedings thereto.

(2.) THE FIR in question was got recorded by Kulwant Singh son of Kaka Ram, since deceased, on 12.04.2000 with the allegation that the petitioner along with respondent Nos.2 to 4 had prepared forged documents and misled the Punjab Wakf Board. It was mentioned in the complaint made to the police that a civil suit regarding the same was already pending where opinion of the expert had come opining the documents to be false.

(3.) ON the other hand, learned counsel for the State submitted that & prima facie case has been made out against the petitioner as after registration of the FIR, challan was presented and even charge has also been framed against the petitioner and other accused under Sections 468/471 IPC. However, he could not dispute the factual position that the civil litigation regarding the same property and with similar allegations was already pending when the FIR in question was registered.