Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 420, 406 -- Cheating - Quashing of FIR - Petitioner acted as a mediator for fixing of marriage by providing contact details of both parties to each other - Petitioner not related to any of the parties - Respondent No.1 in her supplementary statement, for the first time, stated that petitioner cheated them by exploiting her father..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 377, 498A, 354, 506(2), 420, 406, 34 -- Rape and cheating - Quashing of FIR - Allegations against petitioner are baseless and without any substance - Allegations in FIR and final report, even if taken at their face value, do not prima facie constitute any offence or make out a case against petitioner - FIR against petitioner quashed...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 427, 504, 506, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Cruelty - Settlement - When parties genuinely settle the dispute amicably then Criminal proceedings can be quashed by exercising power under Article 142 of the Constitution of India or even u/s 482 Cr.P.C...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 90 -- Rape - False promise of marriage - Prosecutrix being a married woman and mother of three children was matured enough to understand the significance of moral or immoral quality of act she was consenting to - Moreover, prosecutrix had gone to stay with accused during subsistence of her marriage with her husband - Prosecutrix knows..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 432, 433, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 307, 394 -- Pre-mature release - Murder - Number of accused found guilty was less than five, thus robbery could not have been termed as dacoity - Accused was neither convicted for offence of dacoity nor having committed dacoity with murder - However, case of accused for his premature..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 323, 384, 406, 423, 467, 468, 420, 120B -- Quashing of FIR - Offence u/ss 323, 384, 406, 423, 467, 468, 420, 120B IPC - Ingredients to attract offence and nature of allegations contained in application filed by respondent would undoubtedly make it clear that respondent had failed to make specific..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 323, 384, 406, 423, 467, 468, 420, 120B -- Quashing of FIR - Offence u/ss 323, 384, 406, 423, 467, 468, 420, 120B IPC - Ingredients to attract offence and nature of allegations contained in application filed by respondent would undoubtedly make it clear that respondent had failed to make specific..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 307 -- Quashing of FIR - Compromise - Offence u/s 307 IPC - Case is under investigation and no final report is filed - Quashing of FIR on the submission that parties resolved their dispute could not be considered at the crime stage, since such an exercise in cases involving offence u/s 307 IPC is..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 120B, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 24 -- Murder - Extra judicial confession - Confession rightly disbelieved as same made in presence of persons with whom accused had not cordial relations - Prosecution has failed to produce any other evidence except so called extra judicial confession - Acquittal upheld...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 354(D), 376(2)(N), 506 -- Rape - Acquittal - It is a case wherein the prosecutrix is unable to produce any document and herself giving in writing that she does not have any evidence to substantiate both the aforesaid allegations - Prosecutrix and the respondent No.2 were having love affair for around 6-7 years and they had a consensual..........
