VADODARA: Two persons were booked for producing forged invoices as original ones to get custody of a mobile phone seized by police in a gambling raid.
The accused Ankita Soni, who lives on Waghodiya Road, had approached the court last month to get back the mobile phone which police had seized as ‘muddamal’. Soni had produced three invoices of the mobile phone to claim her ownership during the court hearings. When court asked police to give a report in response to the invoices, the investigating officer told the court that the invoices were not original. An owner of a mobile phone shop was examined and he too supported the police report.
When Soni’s lawyer was asked who had given the copies of invoices to him, he said that one of her family members Praful Soni had sent through WhatsApp and he had taken a print of it. The court not only turned down Soni’s plea but also directed the court registrar to file a complaint with police. Based on the registrar’s complaint an offence of forgery was registered at Gotri police station.