Chandigarh: Punjab and Haryana High Court The sentence of seven villagers of Navanshar in Punjab has upheld the desire of a soldier who disappeared during World War 2.
Harbans SinghA native of Sheikhupur Bagh village disappeared after 1943, making him officially dead by his wife Joginder Kaur to claim his benefits as a legal heir. Decades later, a group of villagers falsely claimed that Harbans lived with one of them and died of a will, leaving a will.
As he failed to prove the presence of a soldier, HC upheld his sentence and three -year term honored by the trial court. Justice Mahabir Singh Sindhu said in his April 7 order, “If it is proved that a person has not been heard for seven years, who would have naturally heard about him. If he was alive, he was the burden of evidence that he is still alive, will rest on the person who confirms the fact of his life,” Justice Mahabir Singh Sindhu said in his order of his 7 April.
HC directed seven, who were on bail, to surrender before the Nawanshahar court within six weeks and to undergo the remaining part of their sentence. Joginder, whose FIR was filed in 1996, died during the court proceedings, as some of the accused.
Joginder married Harbans in 1941, and he joined the army after about a year. He never saw or heard after 1943. Harbans had 50 kanal (about 6.2 acres) land. No children and advanced at age, she lived with a bawa Singh who supported her.
“The crime is serious, as the petitioners have forged with a soldier, who left his wife, home, and property to serve in WW2. Taking advantage of his absence, the petitioners opened a fake bank account in the name of Harbans Singh, which was dated 7 April, 1992, and after that, a false entry for his death was purchased. Dismissing the petition, he organized against his conviction.
According to the prosecution, seven villagers constructed a bank passbook of Joginder’s husband, entered the record of a false death, made a will through a will, and manipulated the revenue authorities to transfer the ownership of the land from fraud. He was sentenced by the lower court in July 2010 and his sentence was later retained by a session court. He later appealed to HC.
