https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=309641 Mens rea-based IPC offences were treated as incapable of being prosecuted against a company where the offence requires a guilty mind and mandates imprisonment without an alternative punishment; Section 477A was also read as inapplicable to a corporate accused because it targets a clerk, officer or servant. In quashing proceedings, the Court emphasised that a complaint must disclose a real prima facie offence and may be interfered with where allegations are inherently improbable, vague, unsupported by legal evidence, or amount to abuse of process. On the materials discussed, the dispute was viewed as substantially civil in character and the prosecution as frivolous, vexatious and mala fide. en-us Tue, 03 Sep 1991 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:30:40 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=309641 Mens rea-based IPC offences were treated as incapable of being prosecuted against a company where the offence requires a guilty mind and mandates imprisonment without an alternative punishment; Section 477A was also read as inapplicable to a corporate accused because it targets a clerk, officer or servant. In quashing proceedings, the Court emphasised that a complaint must disclose a real prima facie offence and may be interfered with where allegations are inherently improbable, vague, unsupported by legal evidence, or amount to abuse of process. On the materials discussed, the dispute was viewed as substantially civil in character and the prosecution as frivolous, vexatious and mala fide. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 03 Sep 1991 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=309641