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16. The case of the complainant is that he received the bogus L.C. but record speaks that no L.C was ever forwarded to the complainant. It was a draft of the L.C which was forwarded to the complainant by no means. A draft/ of the document can be a bogus nor it can be forged. A document can be said to be a forged if it satisfies ingredients of Section 464 of the IPC. If a person dishonestly or fraudulently makes, signs, seals or executes a document or part of the document; makes or transmits any electronic record; or part of the electronic record; affixes any electronic signature or any electronic record or makes any mark denoting the execution of a document or the authenticity of the electronic signature with the intention of causing it to be believed that such document or part of the document was made, signed sealed, executed, transmitted or affixed by the authority of a person by whom or by whose authority he knows that it was not made. The second part of Section 464 of the IPC says that whoever without lawful authority dishonestly or fraudulently by NEUTRAL CITATION R/SCR.A/10110/2016 ORDER DATED: 22/09/2025 undefined cancellation or otherwise alters a document or any material part thereof and third part of Section 464 says that who dishonestly or fraudulently causes any person to sign, seal execute or alter a document knowing that such person by reason of unsoundness of mind or intoxication or by any reason practiced upon him that person does not know the content of the document, is making a false document.

17. Apt to note, that FIR came to be filed even before LC is issued, draft of LC has been treated as forged docments. It is totally misnomer belief of complaint to treat draft L.C as forged document. The FIR per se lacks the essential ingredients of Section 464 of IPC being a very root for invoking the offence of Section 467 and 471 of IPC. The draft document cannot be said to be fraudulently or dishonestly executed document. It is a document which shows intention of a party to say that this kind of final document, would be if it is approved. So until an approval has been accorded to such document it never falls to even the definition of a document. Thus FIR on its face lacks essentials of offence under Section 464 of IPC, being necessary to invoke punishment provision under Section 467 and 471 of IPC being necessary to invoke punishment under Section 467 and 471 of IPC.