Supreme Court · 1983 INSC 113 · Decided 5 September 1983
Gopalakrishna Menon and Another v. D. Raja Reddy and Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1983 INSC 113 · [1983] 3 S.C.R. 836
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 307/1983
- Decided
- 5 September 1983
- Bench
- D.A. DESAI, RANGANATH MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 467, 471, 463, 34, 465, 474; CrPC Section 195, 195(l)(b)(ii), 195(1)(b)(ii), 482
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973-S. 195(/)(b)(il}-Scope of-In absence of con1p!aint from appropriate civil court proseruUon for offenre punishable under s. 467 l.P.C. not sustainable. lnJian Penal Code-S. 467 read withs. 463-Scope of-Offence punishable under. s. 467 is offence described in 5. 463. the rcsPondents for ~ecovery of certain a1nount of money and produced som~ c:>ri~nal documents with the 'plaint. The first respondent filed a complaint aaainst the appellants alleging forgery of his sig(\ature on one such document and thereby commission of olf<nces punishable under sections
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