Panchkula, Oct. 2 -- The court of additional sessions judge Himanshu Singh has set aside the order of acquittal passed by the then chief judicial magistrate (CJM) in March 2015 in a case involving fake medical degrees, forged property documents, and bank loan fraud. The matter has been remanded to the trial court for rehearing and a fresh judgment.

On January 31, 2008, the Sector 5 police had registered an FIR under sections 326, 419 and 420 of the IPC against Sandeep Sharma of Kaithal. He was accused of running Shubham Hospital and Diagnostic Centre, Sector 20, Panchkula, while falsely claiming to hold MBBS and MS (Ophthalmology) degrees. Verification from PGIMS Rohtak and CMC Ludhiana confirmed that no such degrees had been issued in h...