1 mpt IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 730 of 2010 Jafar Pirmohammed Shaikh ... Applicant versus The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent ... Mr.A.P. Mundargi Sr. Advocate with Amol Patankar for the applicant. Mr.A.S. Gadkari APP for the State. CORAM : D.G. KARNIK, J. DATED : 25th February 2010 P.C. 1. Heard. 2. By this application, the applicant seeks pre-arrest bail in connection with C.R.No. 178 of 2009 registered at New Panvel Police Station, Panvel, District Raigad for an offence punishable u/s.467, 468, 471, 420, 504 r/w section 34 of the IPC. 3. The prosecution case in short is that on 20th November 2008, a sale deed was executed in favour of the applicant of the land bearing Survey No.84/2 (Part) by personifying the complainant Abdul Kalim Abdul Jabal Khan who is the owner of the land. The complainant 2 Abdul Kalim Abdul Jabar Khan had never executed the sale deed but applicant got the sale deed executed in his name by bringing somebody to personify the complainant. The photograph and signature of the complainant Abdul Kalim Abdul Jabar Khan appearing on the sale deed dated 20th November 2008 is compared with the photograph and signature on the sale deed dated 6th December 2004 under which the complainant had purchased the property. A bare look at the photograph and the signatures appearing on the two sale deeds prima facie show that somebody personified the complainant in execution of the sale deed dated 20th November 2008 in favour of the complainant. 4. Mr.Mundargi, learned counsel appearing for the applicant submitted that applicant was a victim and he did not know the complainant and that he did not know that somebody else had personified him. Submission is obviously inaccurate in as much as the present applicant was a witness to the sale deed dated 6th December 2004 under which the complainant had purchased the property. Obviously, he knew the complainant. 5. There is thus prima facie material to show that applicant is connected to the crime of preparation of false, forged and fabricated sale deed. The offence is punishable with imprisonment for life or imprisonment extended upto 10 years and is a serious offence. Custodial Interrogation of the applicant is necessary as the person who personified the complainant is yet to be identified and traced. In the circumstances, application is rejected. (D.G. KARNIK,J.)