A 23-year-old man has been grant­ed $90,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with al­leged­ly forg­ing ve­hi­cle tint ex­emp­tion doc­u­ments.

Kavir Ma­haraj was giv­en bail as he ap­peared be­fore High Court Mas­ter Shabi­ki Caz­abon yes­ter­day. Ma­haraj was ar­rest­ed af­ter he was stopped at a road­block in Curepe that was con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the Li­cens­ing Au­thor­i­ty led by Trans­port Com­mis­sion­er Clive Clarke last Fri­day.

Ma­haraj was re­port­ed­ly quizzed on whether he had per­mis­sion for the tint on his sta­tion wag­on and he pro­duced a let­ter and a cer­tifi­cate that were pur­port­ed­ly is­sued by the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port’s Trans­port Di­vi­sion.

Clarke and his col­leagues ini­tial­ly be­lieved that the doc­u­ments were gen­uine but even­tu­al­ly im­pound­ed the ve­hi­cle and de­tained Ma­haraj af­ter al­leged­ly con­duct­ing fur­ther ver­i­fi­ca­tion checks.

Ma­haraj, who was rep­re­sent­ed by Keron Ramkhal­whan, was slapped with two forgery charges and two for ut­ter­ing a forged doc­u­ment.

He was not called up­on to plead to the charges dur­ing the hear­ing.

As part of his bail con­di­tions, Ma­haraj was or­dered to re­port to his near­est po­lice sta­tion on the last Sat­ur­day of every month un­til his case was de­ter­mined.

A suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing for the charges is ex­pect­ed to take place in Oc­to­ber next year.