Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 807 · Decided 22 October 2024
Hdfc Bank LTD. v. The State of Bihar & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 807 · [2024] 10 S.C.R. 1902
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 4324/2024
- Decided
- 22 October 2024
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, K.V. VISWANATHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 420, 406, 409, 462, 34, 37, 120B, 201; CrPC Section 482
Headnote
What is the nature of enquiry while determining quashing of a First Information Report u/s.482 Cr.P.C., against a Bank and its Officials. Criminal law - Essential ingredients for offence under Section 420 of IPC - Question of mens rea does not must disclose the following ingredients to make out an offence u/s.420 : (i) That the Accused has induced anyone since inception; (ii) That the inducement was fraudulent or dishonest; (iii) That mens rea existed at the time of such inducement. The Accused/Bank is a jurisdiction person, and as
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