Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 480 · Decided 26 April 2022
Rathish Babu Unnikrishnan v. The State (GOVT. of NCT of Delhi) & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 480 · [2022] 4 S.C.R. 989
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 694/2022
- Decided
- 26 April 2022
- Bench
- K.M. JOSEPH, HRISHIKESH ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 482; NI Act Section 138; Companies Act Section 56(1)
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.482 - Scope of - Summoning order passed against appellant u/s.138 of NI Act - Petition u/s.438 for quashing summoning order - High Court opined that the grounds agitated by the appellant are "factual defences" which within the parameters of limited enquiry permissible in petition u/s.482 - According to the appellant, the concerned post-dated cheques drawn by him in favour of the complainant were contingent/security cheques for buyback of shares of appellant's company held by the
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)