Supreme Court of India

R. Venkatakrishnan v. Central Bureau of Investigation

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Reported as [2009] 12 S.C.R. 762

Decided 7 August 2009

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What the Court ordered

We hold that there is sufficient evidence to hold all accused A 1 to A3, all official of UCO Bank & A5 who was working under Harshad Mehta and A6, official of NHB guilty of criminal conspiracy.

Judgment, page 84

From the headnote

SPECIAL COURT (TRIAL OF OFFENCES RELATING --1 • TO TRANSACT/ON IN SECURITIES) ACT, 1992: c ss. 2(c), 3(2) and 7 - 'Call money' scam - Jurisdiction of Special Court - huge sum belonging to a Scheduled Bank diverted as 'call money' by officials of Banks concerned to the .. account of a broker in securities - HELD: "Call money" transactions are banking transactions - The transaction in question was shown as 'call money' transaction and, therefore, 'r ... it could not have been used for any other purpose - The act of illegally diverting the money belonging to National Housing Bank to the account

Authorities it was built on

1958 Shri Ram Krishna Dalmia v. Shri Justice S. R. Tendolkar & Others cited by 108
2008 Raghunath Anant Govilkar v. State of Maharashtra and Ors. cited by 4
2007 Commercial Taxation Officer, Udaipur v. Rajasthan Taxchem Ltd. cited by 3
1998 Minoo Mehta v. Shavak D. Mehta cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2014 State of Bihar & Ors. v. Rajmangal Ram relied on
2013 R. Shaji v. State of Kerala. relied on
2024 Ram Prakash Chadha v. The State of Uttar Pradesh referred to
2022 Zakia Ahsan Jafri v. State of Gujarat & Anr. referred to
2013 Gulam Sarbar v. State of Bihar (now Jharkhand) referred to
2012 N.V. Subba Rao v. State, through Inspector of Police, Cbi/spe,visakhapatnam, A.P. referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 4 referred to

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