1 Amk IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL REVISION APPLICATION NO. 158 OF 2008 Sujit Raghunath Shetty .. Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra .. Respondent Ms. Kranti S. Anand for the Applicant Mrs. R. V. Newton APP for the State CORAM : SMT. R. S. DALVI, J. DATE : 12th November, 2009. P. C.: 1. The applicant applied for discharge under one of the Sections of the Indian Penal Code in which he has been charged. The prosecution case is inter alia for bogus franking and forgery. Hence, the applicant has been sought to be prosecuted for the offence punishable under Section 420, 467, 468 and 255 of the Indian Penal Code. 2. It is the case of the applicant that no prima facie case is made out in the charge-sheet against him under Section 255 of the Indian Penal Code. 2 3. Section 255 of the Indian Penal Code relates to counterfeiting Government Stamps. The prosecution has gone through the evidence of one Bharat Mayekar who served in the Sub-Registrar’s Office that the franked stamps on the documents got registered by the applicant were counterfeit stamps. The statement shows the reasons upon which he believed that the stamps could have been counterfeited. This statement shows prima-facie case under Section 255 of the Indian Penal Code against the applicant. The application for discharge is rightly rejected. 4. Hence, this application is dismissed. (R. S. DALVI, J.)