making a false document. Section 463 provides
that whoever makes any false document or false electronic
record or part of a document or electronic record ... completed when a false
document or false part of a document is made with specified
intention. In a case of forgery, the questions
also be liable to fine.
468. Forgery for purpose of cheating.- Whoever commits forgery, intending that the [document or electronic record forged] shall be used ... forgery."
The essential ingredients to constitute an offence of forgery are that the accused must have made sign, sealed or executed a document
would be a strained thinking that any offence involving
forgery of a document if committed far outside the precincts of
the Court and long before ... provision would also operate
where after commission of an act of forgery the document is
subsequently produced in court, is capable of great misuse
document claiming to be someone else or authorised by someone
else; or (ii) he altered or tampered a document; or (iii) he obtained a
document ... false document as defined under section 464 of the Code. If what is executed
is not a false document, there is no forgery. If there
fraud it will be a forgery. Therefore, forgery is done for the purpose of deceit or fraud. Forgery has been defined in the Indian Penal ... defines.' forged document. Section 470 is quoted hereunder:-
'470. Forged document or electronic record- A false document or electronic record made wholly
would submit that as the complaint reflects commission of theft of documents, forgery of certain records and criminal intimidation, the case has been rightly taken ... forgery of documents referred to in the complaint. The first respondent invents certain documents to show that those documents were not in the handwriting
would be a strained thinking that any offence involving forgery
of a document if committed far outside the purlieus of the Court and
long before ... Code is not applicable to a case
where forgery of the document was committed before the document
was produced in a Court.
12. The sequitur
manifest therefore that in order to constitute the offence of forgery a document should have been made either with the intention of causing wrongful gain ... unlawful means, amounts to a false document and the person making the document is guilty of forgery. The view that we take is in consonance
cause damage or injury to any person, commits forgery."
'Making a false document' is described in Section 464(1) as follows ... held that
"The dishonest making of a false document is forgery; but the mere fact of a document containing what is not true
provides:
"Forgery for purpose of cheating-Whoever commits
forgery, intending that the document or electronic
record forged shall be used for the purpose ... document is question is forged,
(2) Accused forged the document, and
(3) Accused forged the document intending that the
forged document would be used
