HC employee held for fraud

NEW DELHI: An employee of Dwarka court has been arrested for trying to implicate a judge by sending fake summons through the chief justice of Gujarat high court.
According to DCP (crime) Ashok Chand, two summons from a metropolitan magistrate of Dwarka court dealing with cases related to 138 Negotiable Instrument Act were received by Gujarat high court in March 2011.Both the summons had to be served through the chief justice there. In the summons, some words were added using a typewriter.
"The envelopes in which the summons were sent also had words typed on them besides bearing the judicial stamp of the court concerned. The matter was referred by the registrar of Gujarat high court to Delhi high court, which then asked the crime branch to probe the matter,'' said Chand.
The probe team found the envelopes were collected from Gujarat high court. Many persons working there came under the scanner. "All possible efforts were made to find the typewriter used. The examination of the envelopes indicated involvement of an insider - an employee of the court. During the inquiry it was revealed that an orderly of the court identified as Kedar Prasad Meena had been reprimanded several times by a magistrate of Dwarka court. It was also found that Meena has been learning to use a typewriter,'' said additional DCP Sanjay Bhatia.
The inquiry led by inspector Anil Dureja and SI Ritesh Kumar found that the accused was learning to use a typewriter from an institute at Raj Nagar in Palam. Typewritten text of all ten typewriters being used at the institute for learning purposes were sent to Forensic Science Laboratory at Delhi to compare with the text on the envelopes. Forensic Science Laboratory authorities said the texts on the envelopes matched with the font of one of the typewriters of the institute, which was used by Meena.
Meena was interrogated and he confessed to having committed the mischief to damage the reputation of the magistrate, as he had been reprimanded by him.
He told his interrogators he had used the typewriter to add text in the summons and on the envelopes. He also confessed to have illegally used the judicial stamp of the magistrate on both the envelopes.
Meena has been charged under relevant sections of the law by the police. It is also being probed whether someone else was involved besides Meena.