1 pdp IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE CRIMINAL CONTEMPT PETITION NO. 12 OF 2008 Vijay S. Hingne .. Petitioner Vs. Yuvraj Yashwant Humne .. Respondent/ Contemnor Mrs. M.M. Deshmukh, APP for State. CORAM: B.H.MARLAPALLE & SMT. ROSHAN DALVI, JJ. October 05, 2009. P.C. As directed vide the earlier order dated 23/6/2009, Shri Y.D. Shinde, Judge, City Civil and Sessions Court at Mumbai has conducted an inquiry and submitted the report dated 24/9/2009. His conclusions are as under:- a) The documents Annexure A, the two pay orders, report of handing over and taking over charge of branch and certificate of incoming manager, contain the signature of Yuvraj Yashwant Humne (contemnor before the Hon’ble High Court). b) It is also clear that the application Annexure D ( in the original 2 record of the contempt petition) also bears his two signatures. c) This means that his denial before the Hon’ble High Court about having not signed Annexure D is untruthful. d) It is also clear that when he was asked by the Hon’ble High Court about the difference in the signature s on Annexures A and on the reply affidavit that is filed before the Hon’ble High Court, he had stated that as an employee of the bank he signs differently on demand drafts and on his reply affidavit in the Hon’ble High Court he has signed the way he signs on the demand drafts. This is obviously a false statement because the signatures on documents from the Bank of India, Kandri Branch (sr.no.1 to 4 in the documents file) are not signed by him in the manner in which he has signed the reply affidavit before the Hon’ble High Court. e) Not only this, in his statement before me he has gone to the extent of denying his signatures on the document Annexure A (in the original record of the contempt petition) which he had admitted before the Hon’ble High Court. The report indicates that there is a prima facie case made out against the contemnor and, therefore, the Contempt Petition will have to proceed further on the basis of the said report. The contemnor is a resident of Nagpur and as per Mr. Moon, who is appearing before us today for the second time, the contemnor is sick. The 3 Contempt Petition has been registered on the basis of the report submitted by the learned Joint Civil Judge, J.D., and Judicial Magistrate, First Class at Nagpur. We, therefore, direct the Registrar (Judicial) to transfer this Criminal Contempt Petition to the Nagpur Bench so that it is dealt with more efficaciously and it would be convenient for the contemnor also to appear and defend it. (SMT. ROSHAN DALVI,J.) (B.H.MARLAPALLE,J.)