1 abs FARAD CONTINUATION IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 3105 OF 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Court's or Judge's Orders Coram, appearances, Court's Orders or directions and Registrar's Orders Mr. I.M. Khairdi for the petitioner. Mr. K.V. Saste, A.P.P. for the State. CORAM : D.G. KARNIK, JJ. DATE : 1ST DECEMBER 2009 P.C. : 1. Heard. 2. By this petition, the petitioner challenges the order passed by the Judicial Magistrate, First Class rejecting the petitioner's application for impounding of the document as improperly stamped. That order has been confirmed by the revisional court. 3. In view of proviso (c) to section 34 of the 2 Bombay Stamp Act, even improperly stamped instruments are admissible in criminal proceedings. As such, there is no error committed by the courts below in rejecting the application. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed summarily. (D.G. KARNIK, J.)