Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 908 · Decided 20 August 1996
Abdul Fazal Siddiqui v. Fatehchand Hirawat and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 908 · [1996] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 807
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 42/1981
- Decided
- 20 August 1996
- Bench
- A.S. ANAND, K.T. THOMAS (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 24, 25, 415, 420, 120, 34
Headnote
B Indian Penal Code, 1860: Sections 24, 25, 415, 420/120 and 420/34. Cheating-Essential ingredients of-Advance loan against stock in trade of business-Representation that business in question was free from all C encumbrances-Later it was found that property in question was encumbered property and of accused by Trial Court-Con­ viction and sentence upheld by High Court-Appeal-Held there was nothing on the record to show that the appellant- accused had any knowledge about the property being an encumbered property or about the appointment of the D Joint Receivers by the
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