New India Assurance Co., Shimla vs Kamla And Ors on 27 March, 2001
The observation of the Division Bench of the Punjab and
Haryana High Court in National Insurance Co. Ltd. vs.
Sucha Singh (supra) that renewal of a document which
purports to be a driving licence, will robe even a forged
document with validity on account of Section 15 of the Act,
propounds a very dangerous proposition. If that proposition
is allowed to stand as a legal principle, it may, no doubt,
thrill counterfeiters the world over as they would be
encouraged to manufacture fake documents in a legion. What
was originally a forgery would remain null and void for ever
and it would not acquire legal validity at any time by
whatever process of sanctification subsequently done on it.
Forgery is antithesis to legality and law cannot afford to
validate a forgery.