Bombay High Court: Lawyer accused of forging documents to pose as public prosecutor in Mumbai courts

The Mumbai police have registered a case against lawyer Shekhar Jagtap for allegedly forging documents to appear as a public prosecutor before the Bombay High Court and other courts in the city in multiple cases against builder Shyamsunder Agrawal. The Allegations Builder Sanjay Punamiya lodged a complaint, leading to the case being registered under sections 420 (cheating) and 465 (forgery) of the IPC against Jagtap, Shyamsunder Agrawal, Sharad Agrawal, Kishore Bhalerao (deputy secretary of the state home department), and others . The complaint alleges that Jagtap posed as a special public prosecutor in several court hearings, obstructing investigations to aid…
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