Supreme Court of India

Inder Mohan Goswami and Anr. v. State of Uttaranchal and Ors.

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Reported as [2007] 10 S.C.R. 847

Bench K.G. Balakrishnan J.

Decided 9 October 2007

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered view that the impugned judgment of the High Court in declining to exercise its inherent power has led to grave miscarriage of justice.

Judgment, page 25

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 482-lnherent powers of High Court-Scope and ambit of- Dispute of civil nature between parties emanatingfrom cancellation c of General Power of Attorney and termination of agreement to sell Civil suit pending in court-On complaint, an FIR registered and criminal proceedings initiated-Non-bailable warrants issued-High Court declining to quash criminal proceedings-HELD: Dispute being purely of civil nature and civil suit of complainants pending in court of competent jurisdiction, initiation of criminal proceedings by them is clearly an abuse of process of

Authorities it was built on

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Where later benches applied it

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2015 Mr. Robert John D'souza and Others v. Mr. Stephen V. Gomesandanother relied on
2014 Rajib Ranjan & Ors. v. R. Vijaykumar relied on
2013 Chandran Ratnaswami v. K.C. Palanisamy and Others relied on
2011 State of Punjab v. Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar & Ors. Etc relied on
2011 Raghuvansh Dewanchand Bhasin v. State of Maharashtra & Anr. relied on
2008 Gorige Pentaiah v. State of A.P. & Ors. relied on
2025 Anukul Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Anr. referred to
2025 Urmila Devi & Others v. Balram & Another referred to
2025 M/s Balaji Traders v. The State of U.P. & Anr. referred to
2025 Shrichand Rajaram Kukreja and Anr. v. The State of Maharashtra and Anr. referred to
2025 Serious Fraud Investigation Office v. Aditya Sarda referred to
2024 Sharif Ahmed and Another v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Another referred to
2022 Daxaben v. The State of Gujarat & Ors. referred to
2022 Satender Kumar Antil v. Central Bureau of Investigation & Anr. referred to
2022 Ramveer Upadhyay & Anr. v. State of U.P. & Anr. referred to
2022 Vijay Kumar Ghai & Ors. v. The State of West Bengal & Ors. referred to
2020 Sushil Sethi and Another v. The State of Arunachal Pradesh and Others referred to

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