Man gets 3-yr jail for forgery
A Bahraini man, who was acquitted of forgery, has had his sentence overturned after the Public Prosecution appealed the Court of First Instance’s verdict.
The defendant was put on trial after a local fuel station employee had accused him of paying him a fake BD20 note. It happened, as per the employee’s statement, on April 6 last year when the defendant, who was accompanied by another man went to the station to refuel.
“They asked for fuel worth BD2. When I serviced them, the driver (the defendant) handed me BD20. I gave him back his change and they left,” the employee said in his statement. “The note’s feel was very different than the genuine one. Therefore, I went to police to file a complaint against him,” he concluded.
However, the defendant categorically denied going to refuel on the particular date, pointing out that he was already in police custody. “On that date, I was at Psychiatric Hospital, and when I left police detained me,” the defendant said. And his lawyer argued the prosecutors’ investigations into the case, underlining that they were insufficient and incomplete.
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