https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=176068 At the quashing stage, the Court must accept the complaint's allegations at face value and intervene only where no prima facie offence is disclosed or the proceeding is an abuse of process. Allegations of unlawful allotment at undervalue, manipulation of society records, and wrongful gain disclosed a prima facie case of cheating and related criminality, so quashing was not justified and the matter had to go to trial. A member of the cooperative society could maintain the complaint where the alleged acts harmed the society's interests, and non-impleadment of the allottee and purchaser did not bar prosecution. A bar under the Cooperative Societies Act did not extend to Penal Code offences. en-us Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 16 Dec 2015 10:49:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=176068 At the quashing stage, the Court must accept the complaint's allegations at face value and intervene only where no prima facie offence is disclosed or the proceeding is an abuse of process. Allegations of unlawful allotment at undervalue, manipulation of society records, and wrongful gain disclosed a prima facie case of cheating and related criminality, so quashing was not justified and the matter had to go to trial. A member of the cooperative society could maintain the complaint where the alleged acts harmed the society's interests, and non-impleadment of the allottee and purchaser did not bar prosecution. A bar under the Cooperative Societies Act did not extend to Penal Code offences. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=176068