Supreme Court of India

Everest Advertising Pvt. Ltd. v. State, Govt. of Nct of Delhi and Ors.

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Reported as [2007] 4 S.C.R. 1055
Bench S.B. Sinha and Markandey Ka Tju JJ.
Decided 10 April 2007

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2 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

In view of the above discussion, our answers to the questions posed in the reference are as under: (a) It is necessary to specifically aver in a complaint under Section 141 that at the time the offence was committed, the person accused was in charge of, and responsible for the conduct of business of the company.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973-Recal/ing of erroneous order of issuance of summons-Jurisdiction of Magistrate-Held: Magistrate has no jurisdiction to recall such order-Magistrate does not have inherent jurisdiction. Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881-s.141-Dishonour of cheque issued by Company---Gomp/aint against the Company as well as Chairman and Managing Director thereof-Payment of the amount through cheque made after meetings in which the Chairman and Managing Director participated- They also participated in negotiations as a result of failure to niake payment­ Jssuance of summons to the

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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