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"465. Punishment for forgery.- Whoever commits forgery shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

467. Forgery of valuable security, will, etc.- Whoever forges a document which purports to be a valuable security or a will, or an authority to adopt a son, or which purports to give authority to any person to make or transfer any valuable security, or to receive the principal, interest or dividends thereon, or to receive or deliver any money, movable property, or valuable security, or any document purporting to be an acquittance or receipt acknowledging the payment of money, or an acquittance or receipt for the delivery of any movable property or valuable security, shall be punished with [ imprisonment for life], or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

The necessary ingredients to constitute an offence under Section 467 I.P.C. are, apart from those necessary to constitute an offence under Section 465 I.P.C., are forging of a document purported to be -

(i) a valuable security, b(i) will authority to adopt a son to give authority to any person, one to make or transfer a valuable security,

(ii) to receive principal, interest or dividend available on the valuable security,

(iii) to receive or deliver any money movable property or valuable security,

He had further strenuously urged that the document which is alleged to be forged by the revisionist is not covered by any of the documents enumerated under Section 467 I.P.C. and hence, the revisionist could not have been summoned to face trial for the aforesaid offence as well.

The reply to the aforesaid submissions of the revisionist by the learned counsel for the complainant is that the appointment letter is a valuable security and to fortify his submission he has attracted the attention of this Court to the definition of the words 'valuable security' as given in Section 30 of the I.P.C. and has urged that forging an appointment letter shall amount to forging a valuable security.

In order to examine the contention of the learned counsel for the complainant Section 30 of I.P.C. which defines valuable security is reproduced here in below:-

"30. "Valuable security". The words "valuable security" denote a document which is, or purports to be, a document whereby any legal right is created, extended, transferred, restricted, extinguished or released, or where by any person acknowledges that he lies under legal liability, or has not a certain legal right."

After examining the definition of valuable security the question which arises for consideration is that whether the document which is alleged to have been forged by the revisionist is covered by the definition of valuable security given under Section 30 of I.P.C. and whether the court below before taking cognizance of the offences under Sections 467 and 468 had examined the aforesaid aspect of the matter or not with reference to the allegations made in the complaint and other material on record.