Supreme Court of India

State of Gujarat v. Afroz Mohammed Hasanfatta

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Reported as [2019] 1 S.C.R. 1104
Bench R. Banumathi and Indira Banerjee JJ.
Decided 5 February 2019

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the impugned order passed by the High Court of Gujarat in Criminal Revision No.264 of 2017 dated 03.05.2017 is s et aside and this appeal is allowed.

Judgment, page 33

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s.190(1)(b) – Allegation of cheating/ siphoning of huge amounts of money through Hawala – complaint was filed by the ICICI Bank against a company alleging that they hatched a conspiracy and as a pa rt of this conspiracy submitted false and bogus bill of entry in the ank and forwarded huge sum through Hawala to Dubai and Hong Kong to different companies and thereby cheated Government of India – FIR registered against the said company – Respondent’ s name did not appear in the FIR – During course of investigation, sta tements of various persons were recorded

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 3 referred to · 1 mentioned

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