Karnataka High Court Declines To Quash Cheating Case Against Shuttler Lakshya Sen, Others Accused Of Fabricating Birth Certificates

The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash a cheating case registered against Badminton players Lakshya Sen, Chirag Sen, their parents and coach U Vimal Kumar, wherein they are accused of fabricating their birth certificates, to enable them to take part in the badminton tournaments and thereby claim benefits illegally from the Government.

Justice M G Uma dismissed the petition saying, “The materials that are placed on record discloses that accused No.1 taking advantage of his position as coach in Badminton Academy colluded with accused No.4, who is also the employee of the Karnataka Badminton Association, accused No.5 being the mother of accused Nos.2 and 3 have fabricated the birth certificates and manipulated the date of birth of accused Nos.2 and 3 to enable them to take part in badminton tournament and claimed the benefit from the Government.”

It added, “When prima facie materials are placed on record which constitute the offences, I do not find any reason either to stall the investigation or to quash the initiation of criminal proceedings.”

M G Nagaraja had filed a private complaint based on documents received under the Right to Information Act (RTI) alleging that accused No.2 (Chirag) is the son of accused Nos.1 and 5, who was born somewhere during January-February 1996.

However, subsequently in collusion with other accused concocted and fabricated the birth certificate to show the date of birth of accused No.2 as 22.07.1998. Similarly, in the case of accused No.3 (Lakshya) a similar fabrication of the birth certificate was done to show the age much less than the actual age, only with an intention to enable them to take part in badminton tournaments.

The trial court referred the matter for investigation under Section 156(3) of Cr.P.C. Accordingly an FIR came to be registered at the High Grounds Police Station. The petitioner's counsel did not make his submissions even after being granted sufficient opportunity.

On going through the records the bench said “There are sufficient materials that are placed before the Court by the complainant which are the documents that are obtained under the Right to Information Act from the appropriate authority. Under such circumstances, I do not find any reason to entertain the petitions.”

Accordingly, it dismissed the petitions.

Appearance: Advocate Varun Joshi for Petitioners.

HCGP Venkat Sathyanarayan FOR R1.

Advocate K Vijaya Kumar for R2.

Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 73

Case Title: Chirag Sen & ANR AND State of Karnataka & ANR

Case No: WRIT PETITION NO. 26156 OF 2022 (GM-RES) C/W WRIT PETITION NO. 25699 OF 2022 (GM-RES) WRIT PETITION NO. 26136 OF 2022

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