Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 321 · Decided 13 April 2015
Ganga Dhar Kalita v. The State of Assam and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 321 · [2015] 4 S.C.R. 373
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 592/2015
- Decided
- 13 April 2015
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, PRAFULLA C. PANT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 482
Headnote
A B Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s. 482 - Power c under, exercise of - Criminal complaint against appellant alleging that he fraudulently executed power of attorney by forging signatures of three persons - Civil suit also instituted by the parties - Petition seeking quashing of criminal dispute between the D parties is civil in nature, rejected by the High Court - On appeal, held: In view of the facts and circumstances of the case, the seriousness of the a/legations made against the accused that one of the persons said to have executed the power of attorney was minor; and
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