Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 141 · Decided 3 February 2022
SMT. Rekha Jain and ANR. v. The State of Uttar Pradesh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 141 · [2022] 1 S.C.R. 509
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 136/2022
- Decided
- 3 February 2022
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, B.V. NAGARATHNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 406, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120; CrPC Section 482, 156(3)
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.482 - Criminal proceedings u/ss.406, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B IPC - Six accused including appellants-accused -Allegation in FIR that one co-accused had misappropriated complainant's and other persons' monies whereafter was attached in the year 1998-199 against the amounts due; and in the year 2019, the property was purchased by the appellants - High Court declined to quash criminal proceedings against the appellants - Justification of - Held: Not justified - Main allegations were
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