2 booked for fabricating surety-related documents

Two persons, including a lawyer, have been booked for allegedly fabricating documents to offer guarantee to accused who are granted bail by the courts here, police said today.
The accused include a practicing lawyer in Vasai court, police said, refusing to divulge their names.
"The duo would fabricate documents and present them to offer as guarantee to accused, who were granted bail by the courts in the district," Police Sub-Inspector (PSI) Yuvraj Kalgutke of Vasai police station said.
The accused stood as guarantor for several persons in different cases, he said.
A case was registered against the duo last evening under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code, the PSI said, adding they are yet to be arrested.

The lawyer was earlier arrested for a similar offence and charge sheet has been filed against him in the court, the official said.
Further investigation is on, he said.