https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=280561 An FIR alleging cheating and forgery may be quashed under the inherent jurisdiction when the admitted circumstances do not disclose the essential ingredients of the offences and the prosecution is mala fide. The Court treated the dispute as predominantly civil, arising from competing claims over property and mutation entries; revenue records were noted as evidence of possession only and not as conferring title. On the facts, cancellation of mutation and transfer of a portion of land did not by themselves establish forgery-related offences. The FIR was therefore liable to be quashed and the criminal process could not be used to continue an abuse of process. en-us Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 10 May 2019 16:13:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=280561 An FIR alleging cheating and forgery may be quashed under the inherent jurisdiction when the admitted circumstances do not disclose the essential ingredients of the offences and the prosecution is mala fide. The Court treated the dispute as predominantly civil, arising from competing claims over property and mutation entries; revenue records were noted as evidence of possession only and not as conferring title. On the facts, cancellation of mutation and transfer of a portion of land did not by themselves establish forgery-related offences. The FIR was therefore liable to be quashed and the criminal process could not be used to continue an abuse of process. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=280561