SBG 1306/2016
This case involved whether an individual who had not followed the correct procedure to add her husband to a family card was guilty of forging a formal document.
Background
The office of the public prosecution filed a case against a defendant before the court. They requested the court to charge the defendant with fabricating formal document. They said that the defendant had added a new member to the family card in an illegal way
The defendant claimed that she was not aware of the procedures that she had to take in this regard. She claimed that her husband was the person who added the new member.
Decision
The court considered the documents of the case. The court found that the material element of the crime did not exist in the defendant's case.
The court refused to charge the defendant.
The office appealed the ruling before the court of appeal.
The court dismissed the appeal and upheld the appealed ruling.