Court drops charges in forgery case

Court drops charges in forgery case

JAKARTA (JP): The Supreme Court has decided to drop all charges against Iskandar Indra, 37, director of PT Inti Bhakti Multi Persada, in a case of forgery of land ownership documents for a plot of land on Jl. Jendral Sudirman, South Jakarta.

The Supreme Court through its decision dated Dec. 23, 1994, rejected an appeal filed by the South Jakarta district attorney's office and declared that Iskandar is the lawful owner of a 10,285-square-meter plot of land he bought from H. Musa bin Toyib in 1990.

The dispute began six months after the transaction in 1990, when Abdul Azis, a nephew of Musa, claimed that he was the owner of the land because he had bought it from his uncle.

His uncle denied that Abdul had bought the land. Musa then filed a lawsuit against his nephew charging that Abdul forged the documents for the land. In the meantime, Abdul charged that it was Iskandar Indra who had falsified papers.

The Supreme Court has now ruled that those charges are groundless and that Iskandar Indra is the owner of the property in question.

The South Jakarta District Court has found Abdul guilty of falsifying the land documents and sentenced him to seven months imprisonment.

Iskandar plans to build an office building on the land. (yns)