1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO. 14 OF 2006 Dist.: MUMBAI Shoaib @ Richie Sequeira ... Petitioner Versus Union of India & Ors. ... Respondents Mr. Bhavesh Parmar for the Petitioner Mr. J.C. Satpute for Respondent No. 1 Mrs. U.V. Kejriwal, Additional Public Prosecutor , for the State Mr. R.F. Lambay for Respondents No. 3 and 4 Mr. A.H. Ponda for Respondent No. 7 Mr. Abhishek Munot i/by M/s. M. Dhruva & Co. for Respondent No. 8. CORAM: B ILAL NAZKI and S.S. SHINDE, JJ. DATE: JUNE 25, 2008 P. C.:- This P.I.L. was filed mainly with two reliefs, one that the State Police should investigate the case relating to the alleged siphoning of funds by respondent No. 7, and the second relief related to alleged forgery by respondent No. 7 with respect to documents which were 2 furnished to the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (B.I.F.R.), and the petitioner prayed that this matter be handed over for investigation to C.B.I. 2. The learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the State submits that the case was investigated by the State Police, and a charge-sheet has been filed on 14th August, 2007 in M.E.C.R. No. 10 of 2006 before the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, 40th Court, Girgaum, against the concerned accused. A status report has been filed by C.B.I., to whom the inquiry was entrusted with regard to offences of forgery committed in relation to the documents furnished to B.I.F.R. In the affidavit, it is stated that the investigation is almost complete, and on 29th January, 2008, an application has been filed by C.B.I. before the Magistrate for seeking the original documents for the purpose of investigation. The Magistrate passed the order directing Police Station Gamdevi to hand over the documents after the same were received back from the hand-writing expert, as the documents had been referred for examination to the hand-writing expert. It is stated that as soon as the documents are received from said hand-writing expert, Police Station Gamdevi would send them to C.B.I., and the latter would process the matter for filing of charge-sheet. 3 This affidavit discloses that the documents were referred to the Additional Chief State Examiner of Documents, C.I.D., M.S., Mumbai, on 5th November, 2007, and have not been received back by Police Station Gamdevi. 3. In the circumstances, we direct the Additional Chief State Examiner of Documents to examine the documents immediately and send the same back within a period of two weeks from the date of receiving this order, as he has already taken more than 7 months to examine the documents. With this direction, the P.I.L. is disposed of. BILAL NAZKI, J. S.S. SHINDE, J.