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1. This is a reference made by the Assistant Sessions Judge of North Arcot asking this Court to quash the commitment of the accused in Sessions Case No. 55 of 1911 to the Sessions Court of North Arcot. The order of commitment was made by the Second-class Magistrate of Tiruppattur. There are five accused in the case. The first accused Ramammal is the widow of one Ramakrishna Aiyar whose mother is the complainant. The second and third accused are respectively the father and brother of the first accused. The fourth accused is also a relation of accused Nos. 1 to 3. The first accused executed on the 20th July 1905 a mortgage-deed for Rs. 3,000 in favour of the third and fourth accused and the consideration for this deed is stated in it to be the amount due for principal and interest on a promissory-note, dated the 10th August 1902, alleged to have been executed by the first accused's deceased husband in favour of the fourth accused for Rs. 2,400. The deed further recites that the executant, the first accused received Rs. 1,500 out of the Rs. 3,000 from the third accused for payment to the fourth accused towards the amount due on the promissory-note. In a suit for maintenance instituted by the complainant against the first accused in the District Munsif's Court of Tiruppattur (Original Suit No. 1062 of 1909), the first accused pleaded apparently with reference to the extent of the property in her hands liable for complainant's maintenance, that she owed a debt of Rs. 3,000 to the third and fourth accused on the mortgage mentioned above. She summoned the fourth accused to produce the mortgage-deed and the promissory-note and in obedience to the summons they were produced by him. The case for the prosecution is that the promissory-note of the 10th August 1902 is a forged instrument and that no debt was due by the first accused's husband to the fourth accused. The charges against the first accused are abetment of forgery of a valuable security (i.e., the promissory note) and fraudulently using the same, under Sections 468 and 109, Indian Penal Code and Section 471, Indian Penal Code. The second, third and fifth accused are charged with abetment of the forgery of the promissory-note, the second accused was the writer, and the fifth accused, the attestor of the promissory-note. And the charges against the fourth accused are forgery of the promissory-note and fraudulently using the same as genuine. The learned Assistant Sessions Judge is of opinion that the commitment of all the accused is illegal. With regard to the first accused, the objection to the commitment according to him is that the prosecution was not maintainable without the sanction of the District Munsif's Court of Tiruppattur as the offences abetment of forgery and using the forged document as genuine were committed by a party to Original Suit No. 1062 of 1909 in that court in respect of a document produced in that suit. The Assistant Sessions Judge is obviously right in holding that an offence under Section 463, Indian Penal Code, mentioned in Clause (c) of Section 195, Criminal Procedure Code, covers an offence under Section 468, Indian Penal Code, the object of mentioning Section 463, Indian Penal Code, in Section 195(c), Criminal Procedure Code, being to include all cases of forgery whatever the nature of the fraudulent intention may be: [Teni Shah v. Bolahi Shah (1909) 14 C.W.N., 479 and Queen-Empress v. Tulja (1888) I.L.R., 12 Bom., 86].

2. The commitment of the fourth accused for forgery of the promissory-note and fraudulently using the same as genuine has next to be considered. With respect to the latter count, it is contended that the production of the document in obedience to an order of the District Munsif's Court does not amount to using it as genuine. This contention is sound. The fourth accused was bound to produce the promissory-note and would have been punishable under Section 175, Indian Penal Code if he had failed ho do so. An involuntary production of a document in court cannot be said to amount to any user of it. It was contended for the prosecution before the Assistant Sessions Judge that apart from its production in the District Munsif's Court the promissory-note was used for giving a colour of validity to the mortgage-deed but we doubt whether this argument can be upheld. Assuming that the promissory-note was forged before the mortgage-deed was brought into existence, there was nothing done with the promissory-note at the time of the execution of the mortgage-deed, and it was not used in any way. If both the documents were got up at the same time then they were part of the same transaction and the promissory-note could not have been said to be used in any manner for the purpose of executing the mortgage document. The expression 'using a document' is apparently used in the sense of its being put forward in some way for one of the purposes mentioned in Section 463, Indian Penal Code.