Document Forgery and Use of Fake Document in Verdict Review Meeting

Forging a document and using a fake document are two separate crimes, so if a person forges a document and uses it, he has committed two crimes, each of which is punishable by law.

Document forgery means changing or fraudulently distorting a document with the intention of harming another. Article 523 of the Islamic Penal Code stipulates the following regarding the crime of forgery: Forgery and falsification include creating a writing or document or creating a seal or signature of an official or unofficial person, scratching or shaving or removing a pen or adding or erasing or proving or blackening or presenting or delaying the date of the document compared to the real date, or pasting one writing to another writing, or using another seal without the permission of its owner, etc. with the intention of fraud.

The crime of forgery is one of the unpardonable crimes and the consent of the private plaintiff does not exempt the forger from criminal prosecution and punishment.

In the verdict review meeting of the Department of Jurisprudence Studies, which was held on the subject of “forgery and use of a forged document”, Dr. Mohammad-Hadi Fazalali, head of the 68th branch of the Court of Appeals of Tehran province, issued the decision, and Dr. Hossein Aghaeinia, Hojjatul-Islam Dr. Mohammad-Ibrahim Shams Natri and Dr. Mustafa Abbasi, criticism professors, as well as Dr. Mohammad-Reza Siahpour, as the scientific secretary of the session, examined the circumstances of this crime, its application to the decision in question, and the criminal responsibility of the notary public and the employee of the enforcement branch.