MUMBAI: Observing that release after imprisonment decreases the capacity of an offender to adjust to normal society and association with professional delinquents often has undesired effects on their lives, a magistrate allowed a convicted 25-year-old city-based interior designer’s plea to be let off on a bond of good behaviour after she pleaded guilty to forging her monthly railway pass just to avoid the trouble of renewing it.
The woman, Afrin Shaikh, had spent 21 days in jail after she was arrested in February 2015. She has been out on bail.
Shaikh will have to pay Rs 3,000 as compensation to Western Railways.
“It is needless to mention here that if the accused is put behind bars for this act, which she has committed in ignorance, it will not only destroy her career but also her life, which is already in a miserable state,” Metropolitan Magistrate J C Dhengale said.
