Patent-settlement expenditure treated as commercially expedient revenue outlay, with foreign-law restrictions inapplicable before the prospective amen...
Dishonour of Cheque - noncompliance of certain terms of the settlement agreement - once a compromise has been arrived at and an offence u/s 138 of the NI Act is compounded, the concerned Court, after passing an order compounding the offence can only proceed for attachment in terms of Sections 421 and 431 of the CrPC. Thus, the non-bailable warrants issued were without jurisdiction and therefore, the consequent proceedings u/s 82 of the CrPC were also invalid. - HC
Dishonour of Cheque - noncompliance of certain terms of the settlement agreement - once a compromise has been arrived at and an offence u/s 138 of the NI Act is compounded, the concerned Court, after passing an order compounding the offence can only proceed for attachment in terms of Sections 421 and 431 of the CrPC. Thus, the non-bailable warrants issued were without jurisdiction and therefore, the consequent proceedings u/s 82 of the CrPC were also invalid. - HC
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