Supreme Court of India

Joseph Salvaraj A. v. State of Gujarat & Ors.

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Reported as [2011] 8 S.C.R. 815

Bench Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma JJ.

Decided 4 July 2011

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that the prosecution of the Appellant for commission of the alleged offences would be clear abuse of C the process of law.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.482 - FIR - Quashing of - FIR against appellant complaining that he had committed offences under ss.406, 420 and 506(1) of /PC - Complainant stated that he had got in touch with the appellant so as to extend the benefit of Appellant's Channel "God TV" to his other brethren residing at Ahmedabad - For the said purposes, he had met the owner of Siti Cable in Ahmedabad and negotiated a settlement for Rs. 10 lacs on behalf of the Appellant's Company as the fee to be paid to Siti cable by Appellant for telecast of channel "God TV" in Ahmedabad - . Grievance of

Where later benches applied it

2024 Kailashben Mahendrabhai Patel & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Anr. relied on
2018 Anand Kumar Mohatta and Anr. v. State (govt. of Nct of Delhi) Department of Home and Anr. relied on
2022 Sri Narendra Kumar A. Baldota v. The State of Karnataka referred to
2021 Priti Saraf & Anr. v. State of Nct of Delhi & Anr. referred to
2020 Sushil Sethi and Another v. The State of Arunachal Pradesh and Others referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to

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