Supreme Court of India
Pooja Ravinder Devidasani v. State of Maharashtra&anr.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that this is a fit case for quashing the complaint, and accordingly allow these appeals by setting aside the impugned judgment passed by the High Court and quash the criminal proceedings pending against the appellant before the Trial Court. · Kalpana K. Tripathy · Appeals allow.ed.
Judgment, page 21
From the headnote
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 ,... s. 141 - Vicarious · liability- Inference of- Held: Liability uls. 141 can be inferred on a person only when such person was at the helm of affairs of the Company actively looking after its day to day affairs, at the material time - There should be specific averment against such person showing as to how the person was responsible for the conduct of business of the Company. .. . Code ofCiiminal Procedure, 1973 :- s. 482- Criminal proceeding - Initiated u/s. 138 rlw. s.' 141 of Negotiable . Instruments Act- Quashing of Held: Criminal law n·ot to be set into
Authorities it was built on
- 2010 National Small Industries Corp. Ltd. v. Harmeet Singh Paintal and Anr.
- 2006 Sabitha Ramamurthy and Anr. v. R.B.S. Channabasavaradha
- 1970 Girdharilal Gupta & Anr. v. D. N. Mehta, Collector of Customs & Anr.
- 1998 State of Haryana v. Brij Lal Mittal and Ors.
- 1981 State of Karnataka v. Pratap Chand & Ors.
- 2008 Malwa Cotton & Spinning Mills Ltd. v. Virsa Singh Sidhu & Ors.
- 1992 Smt. Chand Dhawan v. Jawahar Lal and Ors.
Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Kamalkishor Shrigopal Taparia v. India Ener-gen Private Limited & Anr.
- 2024 Susela Padmavathy Amma v. M/s Bharti Airtel Limited
- 2022 Lalankumar Singh & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra
- 2022 Sunita Palita & Others v. M/s Panchami Stone Quarry
- 2020 Shailendra Swarup v. The Deputy Director, Enforcement Directorate
- 2021 Bureau of Investigation (cbi) and Anr. v. Thommandru Hannah Vijayalakshmi @ T. H. Vijayalakshmi and Anr.
- 2025 Ashok Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. R1: State of Uttar Pradesh R2: Ravindra Pratap Singh
- 2025 K.S. Mehta v. M/s Morgan Securities and Credits Pvt. Ltd.
- 2021 Dayle De’souza v. Government of India through Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (c) and Another
- 2019 G H Shiv Kumar Jatia v. State of Nct of Delhi
- 2018 Chintalapati Srinivasa Raju v. Securities and Exchange Board of India
Of those, 5 relied on · 1 referred to · 5 mentioned
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