Law on Forgery and Role of Handwriting Experts

Law on Forgery and the Role of Handwriting Experts

In case of Sharla Bazliel v. Baldev Thakur [2026] GCtR 227 (SC) it was held that "where allegations of forgery are set out in the FIR and Investigating Agency has undertaken the exercise of getting the disputed documents examined through the handwriting expert, an order quashing the FIR without awaiting the outcome of the handwriting expert’s report would be totally unjustified."

Once the Court was apprised that investigation into the genuineness of the signatures on the disputed/questioned documents was being undertaken and the signatures were in the process of being analysed by the SFSL, there was no reason whatsoever for the High Court to have proceeded to quash the FIR by exercising jurisdiction under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.