Lawanya Sharma
Published on: July 7,2022 at 16:32 IST
A Sessions Court in Pune rejected the Anticipatory Bail plea of 3 Lawyers, a Medical Petitioners & 2 Attesting Witnesses on 5th July in an alleged forgery of a will purportedly executed on Dec 18, 2018 by a deceased former Senior State Government Officer relating to his bungalow in society at Dhankawadi.
Sessions Judge B P Kshirsagar said “Merely because civil proceeding pertaining to the will is sub judice , criminal prosecution alleging the will to be forged cannot be stayed, cannot be quashed but need to be proceeded further,”
An FIR relating to cheating, forgery, use of forged documents and common intention was registered on April 18 this year with the Khadak police. One lawyer out of the three is among the three heirs of the deceased officer. His elder brother is the complainant in the case. The other two Lawyers are accused of drafting the disputed will and notarizing the same, respectively. The Medical Practitioner stands accused of issuing a fitness certificate in favour of the deceased for the purpose of preparing the disputed will and the remaining two signed the document as Attesting Witnesses.
Judge Kshirsagar cited the “suspicious circumstances” brought to his notice by Public Prosecutor Rajesh Kavediya, who was in support of the state’s case to reject the pre-arrest bail, who cited the circumstances that included a handwriting expert’s opinion that the signatures on the attested copy of the will did not match the signature of the deceased. He said the will did mention neither the wife nor the daughter’s share in it.