Supreme Court of India

Shrichand Rajaram Kukreja and Anr. v. The State of Maharashtra and Anr.

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Reported as [2025] 5 S.C.R. 696
Bench Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta JJ.
Decided 14 May 2025

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What the Court ordered

Resultantly, the impugned-FIR No. 443 of 2015 and all proceedings sought to be taken in furtherance thereof including the chargesheet are also quashed.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Whether the allegations levelled in the impugned-FIR disclose a dispute of civil in nature; whether the proceedings of the impugned- FIR and the chargesheet filed as a culmination of the investigation is a gross abuse of process of the Court. Headnotes† Penal Code, 1860 – ss.406, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 34 – The complainant alleged that he had worked on the project of STP plant and drainage pipe line as a sub-contractor for BUL but only a partial payment against the total work carried out was received by him – In this manner, the complainant claimed to have been cheated

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