https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297676 A contractual dispute over non-payment of balance consideration and alleged deficient performance was treated as civil in character, not criminal. The complaint, read at face value, did not show fraudulent or dishonest intention at the inception of the agreements, which is necessary to sustain a cheating allegation. The existence of arbitration and pending arbitral claims further reinforced that the controversy arose from contractual obligations rather than criminal conduct. As the essential ingredients of the alleged offences were not made out, the criminal complaint did not disclose a prima facie criminal case and the criminal proceedings were liable to be quashed. en-us Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 17 Sep 2021 09:20:11 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297676 A contractual dispute over non-payment of balance consideration and alleged deficient performance was treated as civil in character, not criminal. The complaint, read at face value, did not show fraudulent or dishonest intention at the inception of the agreements, which is necessary to sustain a cheating allegation. The existence of arbitration and pending arbitral claims further reinforced that the controversy arose from contractual obligations rather than criminal conduct. As the essential ingredients of the alleged offences were not made out, the criminal complaint did not disclose a prima facie criminal case and the criminal proceedings were liable to be quashed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297676