Advocate accused of fabricating court orders with fake seals and forged signatures sought anticipatory bail under Section 482 BNSS in FIR No.388/2025. The High Court, noting serious allegations, the need for custodial interrogation, and that Truth Labs' comparison based on photostat copies could not be considered, dismissed the petition.
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IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD
MONDAY, THE TWENTY NINTH DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE
PRESENT
THE HONOURABLE SMT JUSTICE K. SUJANA
CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 16787 OF 2025
Between:
Mustafa Basith, S/o. Late Mohammed Basith Ali, Aged 36 years, Occ. Advocate, Having office at 23-1-95416, Sana Towers, Moghalpura, Hyderabad.
...PETITIONERYACCUSED No. 2
AND
The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Hyderabad.
,..RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT
Petition under Section 482 of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to grant anticipatory bail to the Petitioner/Accused No.2 and direct the P.S. Sangareddy Town, Sangareddy to release the Petitioner on bail in the event of his arrest pertaining to Cr.No.388/2025 ol P.S. Sangareddy Town, Sangareddy, pending enquiry and Trial.
This Petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition and upon hearing the arguments of Sri Mohd Muzaffer Ullah Khan, Advocate for the Petitioner and the Public Prosecutor on behalf of the Respondent.
The Court made the following: ORDER
IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OFTELANGANA
AT HYDERABAD
THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE K. SUJANA
CRIMINAL PETITION No. 16787 OF 2()25
29.r2.2025
Between :
Mustafa Basitl.r
Petitioner/ Accuscd No. 2
And
The State of Telangana,
Rep., by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Hyderabad
.. Respondent/Complainant
: ORDER:
This criminal petition is filed under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 by the
petitioner/ Accused No.2 seeking anticipatory bail in connection with FIR No.388 of 2025 of Sangareddy 'fown Police Station, Sangareddy. The offences alleged against the petitioner are under Sections 3 1 8 [4), 336 (3), 340(2) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2O23.
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Principal District and Sessions Judge, Sangareddy lodged a complaint stating that he received a representation from Sri Shaik Fareed and Smt. Nagamani along u,ith documents stated to be orders in O.S.No.12I of 2024 on thc file ol Il Addl. District and Sessions Court, Sangareddy and O.S.No. 16O of 2024 on t}:re hle of Addl. Senior Civil Judge Court, Sangareddy. After verifying the concerned records, it is found that no injunction or status quo order was passcd by thc Hon'blc Court in both the cases, only urgent notice to the defendants was issued and the C.A. numbers mentioned in the documcnts are not found in the records. It is further stated that the documents also have fake court seals and a forged signature. Hence he requested to take necessary action. Basing on the above complaint, the Police registered a case in Cr.No.388 of 2025 for the above offences.
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knowledge about the alleged fraud or fabricaLion of documents more sojudicial documents until registration of crime. He further contended that the notice attached with the alleged fabricated order contains the signature alleged to have been signed by the petitioner but in fact he has neither signed any of the alleged notice nor it stated about any status quo order. In fact two notices were used with two different dates with two different signatures of which neither of the signatures bear the original signature o[ the petitioner. The signature on the alleged forged document is visibly different from those on the petitioner's vakalat and affidavit. He further submitted that some other persons have conspired and committed this crime and falsely implicated the petitioner in this case. Hence, prayed this Court to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner.
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DISMISSING THE CRIMINAL PETITION Jrs ttlrlza
2 issues framed by the court
Whether anticipatory bail should be granted to Accused No.2 in a case alleging forgery and fabrication of court orders and judicial documents.
Whether custodial interrogation was necessary given the serious allegations against the petitioner.
2 provisions across 2 enactments
Mustafa Basith
The State of Telangana
K. Sujana
As recorded by the court registry
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