Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 485 · Decided 6 August 2010
Dinesh B. Patel & ORS. v. State of Gujarat & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 485 · [2010] 10 S.C.R. 319
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1464/2010
- Decided
- 6 August 2010
- Bench
- V.S. SIRPURKAR, CYRIAC JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 482; NI Act Section 141
Headnote
A B Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s. 482 - Criminal complaint - Against a Company, which manufactured medicines, and its Directors - Alleging defect in the C manufactured medicines - Petition for quashing the complaint - Dismissed by High Court - On appeal, held: Complaint not liable to be that the Directors were privy to the manufacturing of medicine by the Company - Allegations were serious in .D nature - It is open to the Directors to show before trial court that they were not liable u/s. 34(2) of Drugs and Cosmetics Act - Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 - s. 34(2). A compliant
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