Karnataka HC sentences man to three months’ imprisonment for forging court order

Bengaluru The High Court of Karnataka has sentenced a man to three months’ simple imprisonment for criminal contempt after he was found guilty of forging a 2017 court order by changing the date and adding the names of some individuals as petitioners who had not filed any petition. A Division Bench comprising Justices D.K.

Singh and H. Shanthi Bhushan passed the order in a criminal contempt of court petition initiated suo motu by the court against Chethan Kumar, a resident of Siddlaghatta in Chickballapur district.

Case of 2017 As many as 26 students, who had failed to complete engineering courses within stipulated period, had filed writ petitions before the Vacation Bench, which had passed an interim order on September 28, 2017, directing respondent engineering colleges and the Visveswaraya Technological University to receive their applications for allowing them to appear for exams in backlog subjects.