Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 323, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Cruelty - Dowry demand - Compromise - Quashing of proceedings - Matrimonial dispute between husband and wife should be quashed when parties resolve their entire dispute amongst themselves through compromise duly filed and verified by Court -..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376(2)(n), Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, Section 4, 6, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Rape - Quashing of FIR - Victim solemnized marriage with accused and couple is stated to be residing happily with each other - Male child has also been born from said wedlock - Possibility of conviction is also..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 420 -- Rape - Compromise - Matter between parties settled in view of compromise - Victim has solemnized marriage with accused after attaining age of majority - Couple is stated to be residing happily with each other - Possibility of conviction is remote and bleak and continuation of criminal case will cause injustice to parties -..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 438, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 420, 467, 468, 471 -- Second anticipatory bail application - Accused by submitting forged documents had received benefits of a revised pay scale from department and prima facie committed offences in question - Custodial interrogation of accused is required for recovering original documents and..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 420 -- Cheating - Cheques dishonoured - Merely because cheques issued had been dishonoured does not mean that complainant has been cheated...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 420 -- Cheating - Cheques dishonoured - Dishonouring of cheques does not make out a case of cheating, moreso when part payments were made for the goods supplied and the case of accused from the beginning was that they were ready for a settlement of accounts...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 420 -- Cheating - Cheques dishonoured - Civil suit for rendition of accounts filed but said fact not disclosed in the complaint - If such fact had been disclosed, possibly summoning order might not have been passed - Complaint and summoning order quashed...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 420 -- Cheating - Cheques dishonoured - Plea that both the proceedings u/s 138 Negotiable Instruments Act and S.420 IPC can go simultaneously - However, in the present case only one remedy u/s 420 IPC is availed - Said plea would have been available only if both the remedies had been availed of by the complainant - Complaint and summoning..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 201, 34, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, Section 3(2)(v) -- Two extra judicial confessions - Acquittal of some co-accused but conviction of appellant - If such week piece of evidence of co-accused was not duly proved or found trustworthy for holding other co-accused guilty of committing..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Murder - First and foremost aspect to be proved by prosecution is factum of homicidal death - If evidence of prosecution falls short of proof of homicidal death of deceased, and if possibility of suicidal death could not be ruled out, appellant-accused could not be convicted merely on the basis of theory of "Last seen together"...........