: The Sessions Court today sentenced three individuals, including two lawyers, to seven days in jail for contempt for filing false evidence involving a man’s witness statement, in a civil suit case four years ago.
Before sentencing, Halilah said that the court found that the respondents had the intention of committing contempt of court, by preparing and filing false evidence in the form of a witness statement of Allen David Martinez. “In this case, the witness statement was intentionally and dishonestly filed. The respondents knew that the witness statement was not the actual Martinez statement. Therefore, they deliberately misled this court,” she said.
According to the facts of the case, the impugned witness statement of Martinez was filed by Mark Robin and Mahadeva, through their firm, on Feb 28, 2020, without any communication, confirmation, nor meeting with Martinez.