https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=420459 A criminal complaint may be quashed at the threshold where the surrounding facts show it was filed as a counterblast to earlier proceedings under the Negotiable Instruments Act and continuation would amount to abuse of the process of court. The relevant inquiry is whether the later prosecution was instituted in retaliation against, or to pre-empt, the pending earlier case. On those facts, the Court treated the complaint as retaliatory in nature and quashed the proceedings. en-us Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:12:32 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=420459 A criminal complaint may be quashed at the threshold where the surrounding facts show it was filed as a counterblast to earlier proceedings under the Negotiable Instruments Act and continuation would amount to abuse of the process of court. The relevant inquiry is whether the later prosecution was instituted in retaliation against, or to pre-empt, the pending earlier case. On those facts, the Court treated the complaint as retaliatory in nature and quashed the proceedings. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=420459