illegally and created
forged receipts” and the FSL report-report of the handwriting expert
is filed in the said suit and the Civil Court ... High Court has failed to appreciate that the
opinion of the handwriting expert is relevant evidence, but it is not a
conclusive evidence and Section
opinion evidence--Conviction on the
basis solely of opinion evidence of a handwriting expert
without corroboration is unsafe-- Evidence ... tally of his handwriting given before the Police during the
investigation with that of Ex. PW10/A as opined by the
handwritten expert
expert's opinion on admitted and
questioned document, regarding handwriting of the
accused persons, goes unchallenged.
In the case law reported as Murari ... reliable evidence
through a doubt, the uncorroborated testimony of a
handwriting expert may be accepted.‖
(xiii) Ex.DW3/P-18 letter dated
Punjab (1977) 2 SCC 210, while dealing with the
evidence of a handwriting expert, this Court opined:
“… We think it would be extremely hazardous ... condemn the
appellant merely on the strength of opinion evidence of a
handwriting expert. It is now well settled that expert opinion
must always
Surinder Kumar, Senior Assistant and PW-4-Sanjeev Kumar, Senior
Assistant and Handwriting Expert. PWs 3 and 4 deposed that the merit list ... were written in the hand of
appellant-Dr. Vidya Nath. PW-7- Handwriting Expert-Dr. Minakshi Mahajan has also
attributed handwriting and signatures
have also been proved to be in his handwriting and
signature and posting has also been made by him. Similarly, Ext. 7, the credit ... also been proved by him to be in the handwriting
of R.K.Sinha. The bank draft, Ext. 8 dated
2001, directed to the police to get a
second opinion from another handwriting expert regarding the signature of the
complainant on the questioned agreement ... sent applicant's
specimen signature for comparison, so the reports of handwriting experts
presented by the police cannot be acted upon and also prayed
aside. State be
directed to file the report of the handwriting
expert and till filing of the said report proceedings
be deferred."
In brief ... husband Balchand and
adopted son Haribhan. But report from the handwriting
expert, Bhopal has not been received by the police and has
not been filed
entries in Ex. P. 66, except A to B, were in his handwriting. It is in the evidence of Raghunandan that it was his first ... should have, in the normal course of business, been in the handwriting of the accused or, at any rate, in the handwriting of the witness
appellant with these two applications consisted of the opinion of the Government Handwriting expert examined on behalf of the prosecution, which by itself ... examined on behalf of the appellant.
5. Shri Shamshul Haque, the Government Handwriting expert (P. W. 18), has deposed that he compared the disputed signatures
