Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 423 · Decided 17 September 1999
Trisuns Chemical Industry v. Rajesh Agarwal and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 423 · [1999] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 686
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 950/1999
- Decided
- 17 September 1999
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, M.B. SHAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 156, 190, 482, 156(3)
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. Ss.156, 190, 482-Quashing of complaint-Grounds for-Complaint to C Magistrate First Class for offence of Cheating and other offences alleged to have been committed under Penal Code-Magistrate forwarliing it for investigation-High Court quashing complaint on grounds the Magistrate did not have territorial jurisdiction to try the case-Held, High Court erred in quashing the complaint-Merely because an act has a civil D profile is not sufficient to denude it of its criminal outfit-Power of a Magistrate of the First Class to take cognizance of an offence is not
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