Atul Marya, Judicial Magistrate (First Class), today convicted Pawan, resident of Jalandhar and Sanjeev, resident of Patiala and held them guilty of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy.

It was alleged that the duo had forged certain certificates to register themselves with the Punjab Pharmacy Council in Sector 34. A case was registered in 1995 by the Chandigarh Police against the duo under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The chargesheet against the two was presented in the 1999. It took the court several years to procure witnesses in the case, a majority of them from Karnataka.

Marya, while dispensing away with the judgment, held, “Keeping in view the facts of the case, it is observed that convicted persons committed heinous crime. Their conduct clearly prescribes that they had scant respect for law and if these types of tendencies are not nipped in the bud and are allowed to go scot free, there will be no law and order.