Supreme Court of India

Padum Kumar v. State of Uttar Pradesh

Neutral citation
Reported as [2020] 1 S.C.R. 57
Bench R. Banumathi and A. S. Bopanna JJ.
Decided 14 January 2020

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2 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

In the result, the conviction of the appellant-accused under Sections 467 and 468 IPC is confirmed and the sentence of imprisonment imposed on him is reduced to the period already underg one.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Criminal Law – Evidence – Opinion of hand writing expert – Appreciation of – Appellant-accused was working as Postman at the relevant time – On 09.04.92, PW-3 sent registered e nvelope to the Complainant-PW-1 – Envelope contained four Indira Vikas Patra of value of each Rs.5,000/- totalling Rs.20,000/- – Envelope did not reach PW-1 who made complaint to the Department of Posts – Information was received that a person named “Mohan” r eceived the aforesaid registry – PW-1 and his son named Dev esh Mohan (PW-2) went to the Post Office and saw the signature where i t was written “ . Mohan” – PW-2

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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