QUASHING · GROUNDS, TESTS AND LIMITS
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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Explore a judgment: Dinesh Gupta v. The State of Uttar Pradesh and Another
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 entryThe 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.
FIRRead entryThe complaint named two distant relatives without describing their individual acts. The Supreme Court quashed proceedings against them while leaving the allegations concerning other accused unresolved.
Criminal ProceedingsRead entryA land dispute produced an FIR against a successor to property although the accusation did not identify a criminal act by her. The Supreme Court quashed that FIR and its consequences only insofar as they concerned the appellant.
FIRRead entryThe Supreme Court reversed the quashing of a dowry-demand FIR against three relatives because the accusation supplied dates, demands and identified participants. It also rejected an asserted factual defence and an unsubstantiated claim of manifest mala fides as grounds for ending the prosecution at the threshold.
FIRRead entry