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9. During oral submissions, reliance was placed on the judgment of Apex Court in Oriental Insurance Co. Limited. v. Prithvi Raj, AIR 2008 SC 1408 , wherein the decision of New India Assurance Co., Shimla v. Kamla and others, (2001) 4 SCC 342, was considered and it was held that once the licence is a fake one, its renewal cannot take away the effect of forgery. It was added that "a fake licence cannot get its forgery outfit stripped off merely on account of some officer renewing the same with or without knowing it to be forged". The Apex Court, thus, observed that no licensing authority has the power to renew a fake licence and a counterfeit document, showing that it contains a purported order of a statutory authority, would ever remain counterfeit, albeit the fact that other persons, including some statutory authorities, would have acted on the document unwittingly on the assumption that it is genuine.