Criminal liability under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 subsists against directors of a company notwithstanding the initiation of liquidation proceedings against such co..

Mere knowledge of a second marriage is insufficient to attract liability of the husband's relatives under Section 494 IPC; the complainant must prima facie establish overt acts or active par..

Mere allegation of an illicit relationship, without a positive act of instigation or incitement in close proximity to the act of suicide, does not satisfy the ingredients of abetment under S..

Loan repayments leading to acquisition of assets partake the character of capital investment and cannot be equated with necessary or unavoidable expenditure for the purpose of determining ma..

High Courts, while exercising inherent jurisdiction under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, cannot travel beyond the allegations in the complaint and material placed by the comp..

In anticipatory bail proceedings, the temporal sequence of events and the conduct of parties preceding the registration of an FIR are relevant considerations. Where a criminal complaint appe..

Under Section 7(3) of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, a person aggrieved by a dowry offence cannot be prosecuted under the Act solely on the basis of statements or complaints made by them a..

Loan repayments that lead to creation of assets cannot be treated as necessary expenditure for the purpose of reducing maintenance liability under Section 144 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraks..

Criminal proceedings under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 can be quashed where they are instituted not out of genuine grievance but as a strategic device to stall a..

Where unimpeachable material of sterling quality demonstrably displaces the factual foundation of accusations and the prosecution fails to effectively counter it, the Court is justified in e..

For computing limitation under Section 468 of the CrPC, the relevant date is the date of filing of the complaint or lodging of the FIR, and not the date on which the Magistrate takes cogniza..

Pre-trial quashing of a Section 138 complaint is impermissible once the statutory presumption under Section 139 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 is triggered. Whether a cheque was iss..