Dear Mr. Mani:
I have my sympathies with you. You have lost a lot of money. The person who took money has virtually cheated you. The fact that you are now in USA has added your problem. Rupees seven lakhs is a lot of money to lose. But it is too small and uneconomical to fight for from USA. I understand that you are desperate.
Taking signatures on blank papers and blank cheque leaves and using them to fabricate documents is a criminal offence. There is no doubt about it. I have seen such things only in films. Probably you also got the clue from films. Criminals generally take signatures under duress of weak persons and use them later for illegitimate gain for themselves and/or illegitimate loss to the victim. You may take signatures on blank papers for a purpose or an intention that may be legitimate. But law looks at only your action and not at the intention or purpose. Intention, purpose, motives etc. will be of relevance only as clues to look for other unimpeachable evidence.
The person did not give you signed papers under duress. She took a large amount of money from you without any security. She very well knew that the money was returnable to you. But she had to give you something that will give you confidence and a hold on her. So she gave you those blank papers signed by her. She trusted you that, if at all the need arose, you would use them only to the extent she owed you money and not more. Her permission to use them, in the manner in which you propose to, was implied when she gave them to you.
The recovery of amount from her is legal but the manner in which you propose to fabricate documents is illegal in the eyes of law. It is illegal because the law says so and the law cannot say otherwise.
I agree with Learned Advocate Biswanath Roy that you are behaving like a village rustic. He is a Learned Advocate. There is no doubt about it. Further you could have guessed his age from the photograph. In fact, if you had written the same things to me, I also would have felt offended.
You are a village rustic because you are seeking such advice in an open Forum. What you should do is to find a good lawyer, narrate what all you have disclosed above to him in confidence and then seek his advice. If he does not agree with you, you can certainly find another lawyer. This Forum is a wrong place and you should not come here just because it is free.
Lord Krishna is my own role model. He saw Bhoorisravas about to kill with his sword an unconscious Satyaki. He asked Arjuna to immediately shoot an arrow and cut the hand of Bhoorisravas. “Oh Krishna! why did you advise Arjuna to do such adharma?” asked Bhoorisravas. “Was it dharma to kill an unconscious Satyaki?” shot back the Lord. They say “one wrong cannot right another wrong.” Courts also say the same. But in real life sometimes one wrong often does undo another wrong.
I give my respects to the Learned Advocate Biswanath Roy. He is older than me by a couple of years.