P&H: Court Rejects Second Quashing Plea in Forgery Case

punjab-haryana
⚖️ Order Date: 16 Oct 2026
Headnotes

(i) Indian Penal Code, 1860, Ss.467, 468, 471, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, S.528 — Forgery — Quashing of criminal proceedings — Successive petitions for quashing — Signed blank documents allegedly filled in with name of third person and used to obtain transfer permission from public authority...

(ii) Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, S.528 — Quashing of criminal proceedings — Compromise with co-accused — Complainant had not entered into any compromise with petitioner thus cannot claim parity with co-accused, whose case was never examined on merits. (Para 23)


Facts of the Case

P&H: Court Rejects Second Quashing Plea in Forgery Case

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed property dealer Charanjit Singh Taneja’s second petition seeking to quash a criminal case over the alleged misuse of documents signed by a plot owner. Justice Manisha Batra held that he had not shown a change in circumstances that justified bringing the same grounds before the Court again.

The case arose from the proposed sale of a Gurgaon plot. The complainant alleged that she signed an agreement to sell and transfer-permission papers after being told a buyer had been found, but that the buyer’s name was left blank. She said the balance sale...

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