Recently Madras High Court directed the police to arrest the fake lawyer practicing using a fake LLB degree and asked that the photo of this person should be printed in the newspapers so that the people who were duped by this person can be traced. Is.
A bench of Justices S Vaidyanathan and AD Jagadeesal observed that “cases of forgery in the nature of job forgery and fabrication of false documents are increasing nowadays and such persons involved in crimes should be crushed with iron hands and allowed to be set free.” will not be given."
In this case, the fourth respondent produced a degree certificate, allegedly issued by Bharathidasan University, which turned out to be fake.
The habeas corpus petition was filed for the production of the adopted son of the petitioner, who is said to have been illegally detained by the third and fourth respondent, before the Court.
The court found that he has produced a fake degree certificate which has been made outside the court premises and claimed that he is a law graduate.
The bench observed that this is indeed a case requiring registration of a criminal case and appropriate action is required against the persons involved in the production of documents.
In view of the above, the bench directed the Commissioner of Police, Chennai City Police to depute an officer of the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police, Central Crime Branch (CCB), Chennai to produce a fabricated document before the court and conduct a thorough investigation. Diya, who will register a case and arrest the fourth respondent.
The next hearing in the matter will be on 10.08.2022.
Bench: Justices S Vaidyanathan and AD Jagadish
Citation: HCPNo.728 of 2022