Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 713 · Decided 20 October 2010
Iridium India Telecom LTD. v. Motorola Incorporated & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 713 · [2010] 14 S.C.R. 591
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 688/2005
- Decided
- 20 October 2010
- Bench
- B. SUDERSHAN REDDY, S.S. NIJJAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 415, 420, 1208; CrPC Section 482; Constitution Article 227
Headnote
A 8 Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.482 :- Corporate. liability for criminal offences - Criminal complaint against C company alleging offence of cheating - Magistrate issued process - Petition under s.482 CrPC rlw Article 227 of the Constitution allowed by High Court Not justified - A company/corporation cannot escape liability for a criminal offence, merely because the punishment D prescribed is that of imprisonmen_t and fine .- The conclusion reached by the High Court that respondent no)-company could not have the necessary mens rea is cleariy erroneous
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