Supreme Court of India
Yogesh Premjibhai Suvariya v. State of Gujarat
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that allowing the criminal proceedings to continue would be nothing but an abuse of the process of the Court.
Judgment, page 13
In brief
The appellants are directors of Shivamy Enterprises Pvt. Ltd., which had been purchasing steel bars from Hans Ispat Ltd. since 2006 and reselling them. In November 2011 Shivamy placed purchase orders for 293 metric tonnes of TMT bars worth about Rs.1.19 crore; the goods were supplied and bills raised, but the ten post-dated cheques issued by the appellants were dishonoured and the bills went unpaid. The appellants' explanation, borne out by Respondent No.2's own Section 161 CrPC statement, was that a deposit of about Rs.2 crore had been paid to the company between December 2006 and February 2007 when it was owned by the Barnala Group, which was never refunded, and the appellants withheld the Rs.1.19 crore to set off that outstanding amount.…
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