Supreme Court of India

Rekha Jain v. The State of Karnataka & Anr.

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Reported as [2022] 3 S.C.R. 558
Bench M. R. Shah and B. V. Nagarathna JJ.
Decided 10 May 2022

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above and for the reasons stated above, the present appeal succeeds in part.

Judgment, page 4

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: s. 420 – Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property – Necessary ingredient of s. 4 20 – Held: To make out a case against a person for the offence u/ s. 420, there must be a dishonest inducement to deceive a person to deliver any property to any other person – On facts, no allegation at all against accused-appellant of any inducement by her to decei ve and to deliver the gold jewellery – Allegations of dishone st inducement and cheating against her husband – Thus, it cannot be said that she has committed any offence u/s. 420 for which sh e is chargesheeted – Thus,

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