https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=171250 Inherent jurisdiction to quash criminal proceedings is limited to exceptional cases where the complaint, read at face value, discloses no offence, is patently absurd or inherently improbable, or otherwise amounts to abuse of process. A commercial or contractual dispute does not, by itself, preclude criminal prosecution because civil and criminal remedies may proceed concurrently. On the pleaded facts, the complaint disclosed prima facie material arising from an ongoing business transaction and a dispute over payment and supply, so the defence version could not be tested at the quashing stage. The request to quash was rejected, and the accused were left to contest the matter at trial. en-us Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 02 Nov 2015 08:34:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=171250 Inherent jurisdiction to quash criminal proceedings is limited to exceptional cases where the complaint, read at face value, discloses no offence, is patently absurd or inherently improbable, or otherwise amounts to abuse of process. A commercial or contractual dispute does not, by itself, preclude criminal prosecution because civil and criminal remedies may proceed concurrently. On the pleaded facts, the complaint disclosed prima facie material arising from an ongoing business transaction and a dispute over payment and supply, so the defence version could not be tested at the quashing stage. The request to quash was rejected, and the accused were left to contest the matter at trial. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=171250