Category: 420 IPC
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Whether suppression of a fact would amount to cheating under Section 420 IPC?
What must be the nature of suppression in order to attract Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code? Whether all suppression of material facts would amount to cheating? In this blog post we discuss one of the oft-quoted decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Hridaya Ranjan Pd. Verma And Ors vs State…
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Mere failure to keep up promise is not cheating – 420 IPC, 415 IPC
A mere failure to keep up promise subsequently cannot be presumed as an act leading to cheating. Supreme Court in Samir Sahay v. State of U.P and Another (2017 SCC OnLine SC 1285)
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SC holds once again distant relatives of husband cannot be accused in 498A IPC
498A Case as against relatives of the husband, maternal uncles of the husband was quashed by the Supreme Court 498A case facts Wife gave a complaint against husband and relatives of the husband, namely his maternal uncles for harassment. She also complained that their son had been kidnapped by the husband to USA. Based on this…
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Arvind Tiwary vs. State of Bihar
Decision of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in Arvind Tiwary vs. State of Bihar (Criminal Appeal no. 998 OF 2018) dated 13th August 2018. Decision of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in Arvind Tiwary vs. State of Bihar (Criminal Appeal no. 998 OF 2018) dated 13th August 2018 decided by bench consisting of J.…