Supreme Court of India

Ouseph Poulo and Three Others v. Catholic Union Bank Ltd. and Ors.

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Reported as [1964] 7 S.C.R. 745
Bench P.B. Gajendragadkar J.
Decided 15 April 1964

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Contract-Documents executed in favour of Bank as secu. Tity for debts-Withdrawal.' of criminal complaint by Bank­ Documents, if executed for stifling prosecution-Test-Indian Contract Act, 1872 (9 of 1872), s. 23. Two of the defendants in the two suits out of which the present appeals arose borrowed a sum of Rs. 80,024-4-9 from the respondent Bank in course of their tusiness by pledging their goods. The Bank discovered that there was shortage in the goods deposited and through its Secretary lodged a com· plaint- with the police that the said defendants, their father and brother had in

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