Caught Lying to Judge: Gujarat Cop Creates Fictional Witness to Dodge Serving Warrant
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The Gujarat High Court has ordered the criminal prosecution of a police head constable who invented a completely imaginary person and forged his signature on official records to avoid serving a judicial warrant.
Justice M K Thakker quashed a proclamation order after discovering that Head Constable P A Parmar, stationed in Gir Somnath district, submitted a false field report. To convince the court that suspect Shrivastav was untraceable, Parmar created a fake witness named "Ajay Mungar"—allegedly a neighbour who claimed the suspect had absconded—only for senior officers to admit in court that no such person exists.
The Fraud Exposed: High Court Orders Police to Produce "Witness"
The scheme unraveled when Justice Thakker noticed discrepancies in the field report and demanded that the police physically produce the neighbour, Mungar, in court on September 30 to verify his statement under oath.
Faced with a direct court order, police teams swept the neighbourhood where the warrant was supposed to be served. Officers returned to the bench empty-handed, confessing that "Ajay Mungar" was entirely manufactured by Head Constable Parmar to close his case file without performing actual field checks.
Suspended Cop Faces Departmental Inquiry and Criminal Charges
Strongly condemning the deception, Justice Thakker noted that a police officer fabricating witness statements to mislead the judiciary poses a direct threat to the legal process, warning that Parmar may have pulled similar stunts in other cases.
Following the court's intervention, the Gir Somnath Superintendent of Police placed Parmar under immediate suspension and launched a departmental inquiry. The High Court instructed the SP to handle the probe with full severity to deter other personnel from falsifying records.
Determining that suspension alone was inadequate for forging court evidence, the High Court instructed the trial court in Veraval to formally launch criminal proceedings against Parmar for fabricating false evidence during judicial proceedings.
