Supreme Court of India · 2019-02-15
Srinivasan Iyengar vs Bimla Devi Agarwal .
- Citation / case number
- AIR 2019 SUPREME COURT 1533
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Petitioner
- Srinivasan Iyengar
- Respondent
- Bimla Devi Agarwal .
- Author
- M. R. Shah
- Bench
- M. R Shah, L. Nageswara Rao
Judgment text excerpt
The Supreme Court upheld the High Court's decision rejecting the quashing of criminal proceedings against the appellants under Sections 406, 468, and 120-B IPC. The Court established that the allegations of cheating and criminal conspiracy were sufficiently substantiated by the complainant's claims of being defrauded by the accused through false representations regarding insurance payouts. The Court affirmed that the High Court's order was justified, allowing the criminal proceedings to continue.