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Issues: Whether the petitioner could be summoned under Section 319 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 in a complaint under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973 despite not being arrayed as an accused and despite departmental proceedings having exonerated him on merits.
Analysis: The complaint did not initially name the petitioner as an accused, though references to him appeared in the narrative. The departmental authorities had earlier considered whether criminal prosecution should be initiated against him and, after receiving his reply, decided not to prosecute. The adjudication order also recorded that the proceedings against him were dropped because the charge was not proved. The legal position applied was that criminal and adjudicatory proceedings may ordinarily proceed independently, but where the adjudication ends in a clear exoneration on merits on the same allegations, continuation of criminal prosecution becomes unjustified. In such a situation, summoning a person under Section 319 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, after the department itself has declined prosecution and has found no contravention proved, is not sustainable.
Conclusion: The summoning order under Section 319 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 could not be sustained and was set aside; the petitioner was entitled to relief.
Ratio Decidendi: Where a person is exonerated on merits in departmental adjudication on the same allegations and the competent authority has decided not to prosecute, criminal proceedings based on those allegations cannot be allowed to continue and summoning under Section 319 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 is liable to be quashed.
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