NEW DELHI, Dec. 19 -- Delhi Police have registered a case against an advocate for allegedly filing multiple writ petitions using forged property documents, after the Delhi high court flagged the matter and ordered a police probe.

The high court, presided over by justice Mini Pushkarna, was hearing a writ petition seeking directions to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to take action against alleged an illegal construction on a property in Zakir Nagar in Jamia Nagar, when it noticed serious irregularities in the filing.

During the proceedings, the court found that the petition had not been filed by the named petitioner, Aditi Shivcharan Rathod, and had instead been instituted without her authorisation using forged and fabricated p...