Madras High Court sentences police officer to three-month imprisonment for forging Inspector’s signature in charge-sheet

The Madras High Court on Monday (August 25, 2025) found a Special Sub-Inspector of Police (SSI) guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to three months of simple imprisonment for having forged the signature of an Inspector of Police in a charge-sheet filed before a judicial magistrate in a criminal case.

Justice P. Velmurugan imposed the sentence after SSI K. Sankar appeared in person before the court and conceded to have affixed the signature of Inspector Rangarajan in the charge-sheet, after the latter got transferred out of Valangaiman police station in Tiruvarur district.