Supreme Court of India

Jik Industries Limited & Ors. v. Amarlal V. Jumani and Another

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Reported as [2012] 3 S.C.R. 114
Bench Asok Kumar Ganguly and Jagdish Singh Khehar JJ.
Decided 1 February 2012

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the basic mode and manner of effecting the compounding of an offence under Section 320 of the Code cannot be said to be not attracted in case of compounding of an offence under N.I. Act in view of Section 147 of the same.

Judgment, page 31

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.320- Compounding of offence - Whether sanction of a scheme u/s.391 of the Companies Act, 1956 amounts to compounding of an offence u/s. 138 read with s. 141 of the N. I. Act and whether such sanction has the effect of termination or dismissal of complaint proceedings under N. I. Act - Held: The effect of approval of a scheme of compromise and arrangement uls.391 of the Companies Act is that it binds the dissenting minority, the company as also the liquidator if the company is under winding up - scheme u/s.391 of the Companies Act does not have the effect of

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