Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 416 · Decided 15 May 2024
C. Subbiah @ Kadambur Jayaraj and Others v. The Superintendent of Police and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 416 · [2024] 5 S.C.R. 813
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2582/2024
- Decided
- 15 May 2024
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, SANDEEP MEHTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 406, 420, 294(b), 506(ii); CrPC; Prevention of Corruption Act
Headnote
Matter pertains to the permissibility of suing the accused for a civil wrong, in relation to the benami transactions, as a corollary, allowing criminal prosecution of the accused in relation to the same cause of action. Act 1988 - s. 4 - Benami transaction - Initiation of civil suit/criminal proceedings by the real owner of the benami property - Permissibility - Complainant-government teacher, previously doing real estate business, fraudulently allured and induced by the
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