Man tricks court into giving bail, gets jail

NEW DELHI: A 26-year-old youth has been sentenced to two and half years in jail for tricking a court here into granting him anticipatory bail in a dowry death case by falsely claiming that he was a minor.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Manish Gupta sentenced Shobh Raj alias Amardeep, while holding him guilty of securing anticipatory bail from another court on the basis of a forged birth certificate showing him to be a minor.
"I find force in the arguments of additional public prosecutor for state that the misrepresentation exercised on behalf of the accused has resulted in influencing the judicial mind of Hon'ble Court while considering the bail plea of the accused and consequently he was directed to avail the liberty of bail," the ACMM said.
North West Delhi resident Amardeep was an accused in a case of dowry death along with other members of his family for killing his sister-in-law by administering her poison in 2005.
He had secured anticipatory bail from the court of Additional Sessions Judge Rakesh Siddhartha on the sole ground that he was a minor with his birth certificate showing his date of birth as February 9, 1988 instead of 1986, the actual year of birth.