https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=310353 An FIR can be quashed where, even on a face-value reading, the allegations do not disclose the essential ingredients of the alleged offences and the criminal process appears inherently improbable or mala fide. The Court noted an unexplained delay of about two years, absence of basic particulars such as the date and time of the incident, and a civil contractual backdrop, and applied the settled quashing principles covering non-disclosure of an offence, improbability, and vindictive prosecution. On that basis, the FIR and consequential criminal proceedings were held liable to be quashed as an abuse of process. en-us Tue, 08 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:11:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=310353 An FIR can be quashed where, even on a face-value reading, the allegations do not disclose the essential ingredients of the alleged offences and the criminal process appears inherently improbable or mala fide. The Court noted an unexplained delay of about two years, absence of basic particulars such as the date and time of the incident, and a civil contractual backdrop, and applied the settled quashing principles covering non-disclosure of an offence, improbability, and vindictive prosecution. On that basis, the FIR and consequential criminal proceedings were held liable to be quashed as an abuse of process. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 08 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=310353