Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 28 · Decided 16 January 2002
State of Karnataka v. M. Devendrappa and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 28 · [2002] 1 S.C.R. 275
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 72/2002
- Decided
- 16 January 2002
- Bench
- M.B. SHAH, B.N. AGRAWAL, ARIJIT PASAYAT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 1208; CrPC Section 482
Headnote
B Code of Criminal Procedure, I 973. Section 482-lnherent Powers of ltigh Court-Quashing of proceedings­ Exercise of-Held, should be exercised sparingly when the complaint does not C disclose any offence or is frivolous, vexatious, oppressive or malafide---No meticulous analysis of case and hazy-No hard and fast rule can be laid down which would govern exercise of inherent jurisdiction-Under the facts, quashing of proceedings set aside. D Prosecution alleged that fake bank guarantees signed by respondent No. 2 posing as Manager of Bank were submitted by respondent No. 1 in
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