https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=312262 A complaint arising from monetary transactions was treated as a civil dispute rather than a criminal case because the record showed a parallel suit for recovery and no specific allegations establishing the ingredients of cheating. The Court found the assertions to be broad and unsupported, and held that the criminal process was being used to criminalise a private money dispute. It also applied the principle that, where the transaction relates to a company, failure to arraign the company as an accused creates a legal defect in the complaint. On these facts, the FIR was quashed. en-us Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:17:59 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=312262 A complaint arising from monetary transactions was treated as a civil dispute rather than a criminal case because the record showed a parallel suit for recovery and no specific allegations establishing the ingredients of cheating. The Court found the assertions to be broad and unsupported, and held that the criminal process was being used to criminalise a private money dispute. It also applied the principle that, where the transaction relates to a company, failure to arraign the company as an accused creates a legal defect in the complaint. On these facts, the FIR was quashed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=312262