https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=418639 Where a cheque dishonour complaint under the Negotiable Instruments Act was settled and withdrawn by the complainant bank, the FIR registered under Section 174-A IPC for non-appearance in those proceedings was treated as having no continuing purpose. The petition proceeded on the basis that the bank had no objection to quashing, and the FIR had arisen only after the petitioner was declared a proclaimed offender in the complaint case. In these circumstances, continuation of the criminal proceedings was viewed as an abuse of the process of court, and the FIR along with all consequential proceedings was quashed qua the petitioner. en-us Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 29 Apr 2022 13:19:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=418639 Where a cheque dishonour complaint under the Negotiable Instruments Act was settled and withdrawn by the complainant bank, the FIR registered under Section 174-A IPC for non-appearance in those proceedings was treated as having no continuing purpose. The petition proceeded on the basis that the bank had no objection to quashing, and the FIR had arisen only after the petitioner was declared a proclaimed offender in the complaint case. In these circumstances, continuation of the criminal proceedings was viewed as an abuse of the process of court, and the FIR along with all consequential proceedings was quashed qua the petitioner. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=418639