LR-4 Property Law in #India: Suppose you have property in native place and someone sells it by forging you signature on some release or sale documents, do you know how many years it will take you to get justice?
It will take many years because
(1) Police is not clearly instructed on how to investigate a false signature complaint
(2) It takes more years to a Civil Court to decide whether the signature on sale document or release document was genuine or forged
(3) Case gets even more complicated when on basis of forged signature document, even revenue authorities have made change entries in land records. It requires a separate round of litigation to get these revenue entries cancelled. You may have to run pillor to post for years to get justice.
Then one day you will get tired. You will be willing to sit down for settlement for whatever you can get from wrong doers.
A burning sensation will remain in your heart throughout your life that you were wrongly deprived of your property and you could not get justice from court.
The wrong doers will enjoy our legal system and will proceed to pouch on someone else's property by similar "forged signature".
It is a clear case of perjury to file a forged document in court. That was what I was taught in law schools. But in last 34 years I have yet not seen any case where a person is punished for filing a forged document in court.
-Haresh Raichura 6/9/2106
