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Issues: Whether the FIR alleging offences under Sections 409 and 114 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 deserved to be quashed in exercise of inherent powers on the ground that the basic ingredients of criminal breach of trust were not made out, the departmental findings did not support entrustment, and the FIR was lodged after an unexplained delay.
Analysis: The materials referred to in the order showed that the departmental proceedings had recorded that no monetary loss had occurred to the bank, the alleged shortage had been recovered, and the petitioner had not been shown to have been entrusted with the relevant property in the manner required for Section 409. The Court also noted that the FIR was lodged after about ten years and that the delay was not satisfactorily explained. Reading the FIR as a whole, the Court found that the essential ingredients of the alleged offence were lacking and that continuation of the criminal prosecution would amount to abuse of process.
Conclusion: The FIR and all consequential proceedings were quashed.
Final Conclusion: The criminal prosecution was terminated because the factual foundation necessary to sustain the alleged offence was absent and the belated initiation of proceedings could not be justified.
Ratio Decidendi: Where the FIR, read as a whole, does not disclose the essential ingredients of the alleged offence and the surrounding record shows absence of the requisite entrustment, the criminal proceedings may be quashed as an abuse of process, especially when the prosecution is initiated after an unexplained delay.
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