https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=308110 Parallel criminal proceedings based on the same commercial transaction were treated as an abuse of process where the later complaint was substantially identical to an earlier complaint and was filed after suppression of the prior proceedings. The complaint also failed to disclose the essential ingredients of criminal breach of trust, cheating or criminal conspiracy: there was no clear entrustment or dishonest misappropriation, no fraudulent intention at the inception, and mere non-performance or delay in a business arrangement could not convert a civil dispute into a criminal case. The FIR and connected proceedings were therefore quashed. en-us Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:06:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=308110 Parallel criminal proceedings based on the same commercial transaction were treated as an abuse of process where the later complaint was substantially identical to an earlier complaint and was filed after suppression of the prior proceedings. The complaint also failed to disclose the essential ingredients of criminal breach of trust, cheating or criminal conspiracy: there was no clear entrustment or dishonest misappropriation, no fraudulent intention at the inception, and mere non-performance or delay in a business arrangement could not convert a civil dispute into a criminal case. The FIR and connected proceedings were therefore quashed. Case-Laws Companies Law Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=308110