Supreme Court of India

J. Vedhasingh v. R.M. Govindan & Ors.

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Reported as [2022] 6 S.C.R. 888
Bench S. Abdul Nazeer and J. K. Maheshwari JJ.
Decided 11 August 2022

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above discussion, in our view, the judgmen ts relied by learned counsel for both the parties are in conflict with each other on the legal issue.

Judgment, page 13

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s.482 and s.300 (1 ) – High Court allowed criminal petition filed by respondents no.1 to 4 u/s.482 CrPC and quashed proceedings u/ss.120B, 406 , 420 and 34 IPC taking into consideration that proceedings u/ s.138 of the NI Act pertaining to the same cause of action and on the same f acts and grounds were pending, prior to registration of the present proceedings – It held that, looking to the allegati ons made in the FIR, only offence u/s.138 of NI Act can be made out and continuanc e of the proceedings for offences u/ss.406, 420, 120B and 34 IPC would amount

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