1 CR.APL NO.1912/2010 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD CRIMINAL APPLICATION 1912 OF 2010 Sakharam s/o Bhagwan Patil, Age 47 years Occu. Service r/o Panchayat Samiti, Bhoom, Tq. Bhoom, Dist. Osmanabad. ...PETITIONERS VERSUS 1. The State of Maharashtra Through Investigating Officer, Police Station, Kallamb, Dist. Osmanabad. 2. Pradip Baburao Walase, Age 26 years, Occu. Service As Block Development Officer Panchayat Samiti Kallamb Tq. Kallamb Dist. Osmanabad. ...RESPONDENTS ... Mr.P.B.Gapat, Adv., for the applicant. Mr.K.S.Patil, APP for respondent State. Respondent No.2 served. ... CORAM: K.U.CHANDIWAL, J. DATE:10/2/2011 *** PER COURT : 1. Heard. Prosecution of the accused/applicant, a Gram Sevak, vide Crime No. 2 CR.APL NO.1912/2010 41/2010, registered at Kallamb Police Station for the offense under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 read with Section 34 of IPC is questioned and exercise of powers under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. is sought to quash the same. 2. Learned Counsel repeatedly read report of Block Development Officer, Class I, Panchayat Samiti, Kallamb, to impress that there is no role attributable to the Gram Sewak/petitioner in forgery of the Gram Panchayat record, providing benefit of Government property to a villager. According to Counsel, at the most, in the light of paragraph no.3 of the report, the petitioner has failed to maintain proper record of the Gram Panchayat/Gram Sabha being in Charge of the record. 3. Learned Counsel did not pay attention to paragraph no.4 which refers to a resolution dt. 4.10.2006 and interpolation thereafter, by Resolution No.4/4 for the year 2007-2008 where the proposal was also manipulated, signature of the earlier Gram Sewak was erased, the Block Development Officer recorded statement of Kolhe Pandurang Baburao who was chairman of the Gram Sabha which primarily implicated the accused/applicant. 4. FIR disclosed, to repeat, that by 3 CR.APL NO.1912/2010 manipulating official record, the Government property at Havargaon was shown to be owned by Bibhishan Pandurang Kolhe and name of the State Government relating to said property was deleted. Considering the above aspects of the matter, nothing is projected to invoke jurisdiction of this Court in terms of Section 482 of Cr.P.C. It is difficult to conceive, that the prosecution against applicant is couched with vendetta or personal agenda of anybody. The application lacks merit, dismissed. The observations are prima facie in nature. (K.U.CHANDIWAL) JUDGE agp/1912-10crapl