QUASHING · GROUNDS, TESTS AND LIMITS
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For Quashing Lawyers in Chandigarh High Court, the linked decisions explain the grounds, tests and limits governing challenges to criminal proceedings and orders. Compare the challenged act with the Court’s reasoning to identify a supported defect and frame the petition’s grounds and requested consequence precisely.
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19 entriesK. Subba Rao and Others v. State of Telangana and Others · 2018 INSC 736
The charge sheets used collective allegations against three maternal uncles of the husband. The Supreme Court quashed proceedings against them because no specific involvement supporting the charged offences was shown.
Criminal ProceedingsRead entryDilbag Rai v. State of Haryana and Others · 2018 INSC 1139 · [2018] 14 SCR 1138
The High Court treated an uncompleted land sale as purely civil and quashed prosecution. The Supreme Court restored the case because information about the vendor's title and alleged inducement needed trial.
Criminal ProceedingsRead entryBhushan Kumar Meen v. State of Punjab and Others · 2011 INSC 633 · [2011] 10 SCR 844
Contrary police inquiries preceded a matrimonial FIR for alleged cruelty. On the full record, the Supreme Court found no prima facie Section 498A case and quashed the proceeding.
FIRRead entryNeelu Chopra and Another v. Bharti · 2009 INSC 1167 · [2009] 14 SCR 1074
The complaint named parents-in-law but lacked particular acts connecting them with the alleged offences. The Supreme Court quashed cognizance and the complaint because general family allegations could not sustain prosecution against them.
ComplaintsRead entryG.V. Rao v. L.H.V. Prasad and Others · 2000 INSC 122 · [2000] 2 SCR 123
The Court rejected the High Court's view that cheating under Section 415 always requires property. It nevertheless dismissed the complainant's challenge, leaving the matrimonial complaint quashed.
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