Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 302 · Decided 21 April 2004
Manoranjan Das v. State of Jharkhand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 302 · [2004] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 601
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 650/1998
- Decided
- 21 April 2004
- Bench
- K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, B.N. SRIKRISHNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 420, 109
Headnote
B Penal Code, 1860: Ss. 420//09-Abetting offence of cheating-An account-holder introducing a person to bank for opening an account-The person so C introduced opening a current account with the bank and withdrawing certain amount from the bank by presenting fake bank drafts-Prosecution of into one u/s 4201109-Held, trial court as well as the appellate court committed serious error in finding the introducer guilty D of offence u/s 4201109-He had introduced the said person to tlie bank only for opening an account and that by itself does not spell out any fraud or cheating-Bank
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