Supreme Court of India

M/s Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Ltd. and Ors. v. Md. Sharaful Haque and Ors.

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Reported as [2004] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 790

Bench Arijit Pasayat and C.K. Thakker JJ.

Decided 1 November 2004

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12 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 482-Quashing of proceedings in a complaint case-Held, if the complaint does not disclose any offence or is frivolous, vexatious or oppressive, inherent power to quash the proceedings can be exercised-On facts, complainant did not approach the court with clean hands, and complaint being an abuse of process of law, proceedings are quashed s. 468(2)(c)-Cognizance of offence-Period of limitation-Complaint filed in 2002 alleging offence to have been committed in 1995-Magistrate issuing process in respect of offence uls 4181PC-Held, court could not have taken

Where later benches applied it

2021 Geo Varghese v. The State of Rajasthan & Anr. relied on
2021 Neeharika Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. v. State of Maharashtra and Others relied on
2019 Chilakamarthi Venkateswarlu & Anr.v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Anr. v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Anr. relied on
2013 Chandran Ratnaswami v. K.C. Palanisamy and Others relied on
2011 Padal Venkata Rama Reddy @ Ramu v. Kowuri Satyanarayana Reddy and Ors. relied on
2008 Gorige Pentaiah v. State of A.P. & Ors. relied on
2025 Chirag Sen and Another Etc. v. State of Karnataka and Another referred to
2025 B.N. John v. State of U.P. & Anr. referred to
2024 Sachin Garg v. State of U.p & Anr. referred to
2018 V. Ravi Kumar v. State, Rep. by Inspector of Police, District Crime Branch, Salem, Tamil Nadu & Ors. referred to
2012 Om Prakash & Ors. v. State of Jharkhand through the Secretary, Department of Home, Ranchl-i & Anr. referred to
2024 Apoorva Arora & Anr. Etc. v. State (govt. of Nct of Delhi) & Anr. mentioned

Of those, 6 relied on · 5 referred to · 1 mentioned

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