IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF ANDHRAPRADESH AT HYDERABAD HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU CRIMINAL PETITION No.2697 of 2007 DATE:15.07.2010 Between: P.Jagan Mohan Rao, …… Petitioner/Accused. And: State of A.P rep. By its Public Prosecutor and another. …..Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU CRIMINAL PETITION No.2697 of 2007 ORDER: This petition is filed questioning order dated 08.06.2006 in Crl.M.P.No.1298 of 2005 in C.C. No.181 of 2004 dismissing the petition filed by the petitioner/accused to send a letter marked as Ex.P-8 to an expert for comparison of signatures under Section 45 of the Indian Evidence Act. 2) Simply because the document is marked without any objection, it is no ground to contend that the document is not disputed. Whether objection is taken or not, the party is entitled to contend that the document which is marked as exhibit is forged one. 3) The petitioner wanted to examine signature in the disputed document Ex.P-8 with his specimen signatures to be obtained in Court. It is well settled principle of law that there can be no comparison of signatures with specimen signatures to be obtained in Court, particularly after the accused was charge sheeted because there is every possibility of the accused simulating or camouflaging his signatures in Court in order to mislead the Court and the expert. It is not as if the petitioner wanted scrutiny of his signatures by the experts with his admitted signatures in any registered documents or official documents. Therefore, the lower Court rightly dismissed this petition. The petitioner after keeping quiet for nearly one year after passing the impugned order, approached this Court under Section 482 Cr.P.C with this Criminal Petition. I see absolutely no bonafides on the part of the petitioner. 4) Hence, the petition is dismissed. _______________________________ SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU, J July 15, 2010 KSH