Content Provider | Supreme Court of India |
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e-ISSN | 30484839 |
Language | English |
Access Restriction | NDLI |
Subject Keyword | Code of Criminal Procedure |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Law Judgement |
Jurisdiction | India |
Case Type | Appeal |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Disposal Nature | Appeal Disposed Off |
Headnote | Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973:s. 482 - Inherent powers of High Court - Scope and ambit of Dispute of civil nature between parties emanating from cancellation of General Power of Attorney and termination of agreement to sell - Civil suit pending in court - On complaint, an FIR registered and criminal proceedings initiated - Non-bailable warrants issued - High Court declining to quash criminal proceedings - HELD: Dispute being purely of civil nature and civil suit of complainants pending in court of competent jurisdiction, initiation of criminal proceedings by them is clearly an abuse of process of Court-Judicial Magistrate, without properly comprehending the nature of controversy involved and without exhausting the available remedies issued non-bailable warrants disregarding the settled legal position - If any abuse of process leading to injustice is brought to notice of Court, then Court would be justified in preventing injustice by invoking inherent powers in absence of specific provision in Statute - Judgment of High Court in declining to exercise its inherent power has led to grave miscarriage of justice - All proceeding emanating.from FIR shall stand quashed - Administration of criminal justice-Inherent powers of Court - Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 420/467.Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973:s. 70 - Warrant of arrest-Non-bailable warrants - Issuance of - HELD: Issuance of non-bailable warrants involves interference with personal liberty - Therefore, Courts have to be extremely careful in issuing non-bailable warrants - Guidelines with regard to issuance of non-bailable warrants re iterated - Constitution of India - Article 21 - Practice and Procedure. A contract for construction of a bathing ghat on the bank of river Ganga was entered into between Sanatan Dharma Pratinidhi Sabha and the contractor-respondent no.3. On completion of the contract, the President of the Sabha executed a General Power of Attorney in favour of the contractor in respect of 13.5 bighas out of 26 bighas of its land bearing khasra no.140, in consideration of the construction work carried out by respondent no.3. The parties executed a further agreement to sell the remaining 11.19 bighas of land of khasra no.140 to respondent no.3, who paid earnest money to the Sabha. According to the agreement, the balance amount was to be paid by 31.3.1997 and time was essence of the contract. On the death of the President of the Sabha, at the request of respondent no.3, a fresh General Power of Attorney in respect of the said 13.5 bighas of land was executed in favour of his son-respondent no.4. It was the case of the Sabha that it came to know that respondents no.3 and 4, by misrepresentation and misusing the General Power of Attorney, were attempting to sell the entire 26 bighas of land of khasra no.140 as they executed 29 registered sale deeds in respect of 13.5 bighas of land and respondent no.4 sold the remaining 11.19 bighas of land to his father, respondent no.3, by executing three sale deeds. Thereupon the General Secretary of the Sabha, appellant no.1, after sending a notice dated 30.4.2001 to respondents no.3 and 4 cancelled the General Power of Attorney. In order to protect the interests of the Sabha, appellant no.1 sold the remaining 11.19 bighas of land of khasra no.140 to a third person on 18.12.2002. Upon this, respondent no.3 filed complaints u/ss. 420, 467 and 120-B IPC, and ultimately an FIR was registered. Meanwhile he also filed a civil suit in the court of Civil Judge (Sr. Division) for cancellation of the sale deed executed by the Sabha.In the criminal proceedings the Judicial Magistrate issued non-bailable warrants against the appellants and others, who approached the High Court under s. 482 Cr.PC for quashing the criminal proceedings against them. The High Court dismissed the petition.It was contended for the appellants that the controversy between the parties was purely of a civil nature since the entire issue related to ascertaining the right and title with regard to the land in dispute in respect of which a suit was pending before a competent civil court, and, in the circumstances, the High Court gravely erred in dismissing the application u/s 482 Cr.PC. |
Judge | Hon'ble Mr. Justice Dalveer Bhandari |
Neutral Citation | 2007 INSC 1016 |
Petitioner | Inder Mohan Goswami And Anr. |
Respondent | State Of Uttaranchal And Ors. |
SCR | [2007] 10 S.C.R. 847 |
Judgement Date | 2007-10-09 |
Case Number | 1392 |
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