https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=172217 At the complaint stage, a magistrate assesses whether the material discloses sufficient ground for proceeding, not whether guilt is proved; where oral and documentary material is capable of supporting allegations of entrustment and withholding, process should not be refused merely because a principal witness has not been examined unless the evidence is inherently unreliable. The complaint alleging criminal breach of trust and conspiracy therefore disclosed a prima facie case. The statutory bar on cognizance for document-related forgery applies only when the impugned document is produced or given in evidence in the very proceeding for which the court's complaint is required; a document shown to police during investigation or to counsel for verification does not attract the bar. The forgery complaint was therefore not barred. en-us Wed, 06 Sep 1972 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:12:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=172217 At the complaint stage, a magistrate assesses whether the material discloses sufficient ground for proceeding, not whether guilt is proved; where oral and documentary material is capable of supporting allegations of entrustment and withholding, process should not be refused merely because a principal witness has not been examined unless the evidence is inherently unreliable. The complaint alleging criminal breach of trust and conspiracy therefore disclosed a prima facie case. The statutory bar on cognizance for document-related forgery applies only when the impugned document is produced or given in evidence in the very proceeding for which the court's complaint is required; a document shown to police during investigation or to counsel for verification does not attract the bar. The forgery complaint was therefore not barred. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 06 Sep 1972 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=172217