Complaint against 19 workers for forging ID cards

Ahmedabad: Karanj police registered a case against 19 persons for forging identify cards of a company in which they were never employed. The complaint states that these identity cards were used at the office of the labour commissioner.
A complaint was registered by Harshit Patel, 45, a resident of Ellisbridge, against his uncle, Kishore Patel, and 17 others persons for criminal breach of trust, cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy.

The complainant stated that father started a business in 1979, where his uncle Kishore Patel was a partner in a few firms. In 2018, Kishore filed a complaint against Harshit and Harshit’s father lodged a complaint for forgery at Vastrapur and Narol police stations. Harshit in his complaint stated that in one of the firms, a partnership involved in printing, Kishore instigated the labourers and filed a complaint against him. Police later established that the workers had been instigated by Kishore and his son, Rushikesh. Later, Kishore formed a union in the printing firm and filed a case in the labour court for non-payment of wages. The family then paid the workers their wages, stated the complainant.
He stated that Kishore then made fake identity cards of another firm of the complainant, showing them as employee of the second firm even though they were employed by the printing firm. The employees then moved court and demanded that the machinery be attached. Harshit stated that as he produced evidence, Kishore told the workers to withdraw the case and the labour court granted permission for withdrawal. The complainant stated that he then moved the high court against the labour court order. The labour court was ordered to hear the case and in its final order observed that the identity cards were forged. Harshit then lodged a complaint at Karanj police station.