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KRISHNA MURARI, SANJAY KUMAR
Gagan Banga – Appellant
Versus
Samit Mandal – Respondent
Certainly. Here are the key points from the provided legal document:
The court recognizes a pattern of mala fide criminal proceedings initiated against financial institutions and their officers, primarily aimed at obstructing lawful debt recovery processes (!) .
Such criminal proceedings are often initiated to circumvent statutory recovery mechanisms, like the SARFAESI Act, and to intimidate financial institutions by misrepresenting civil financial disputes as criminal cases (!) .
The court highlights the misuse of criminal law to impede legitimate economic and financial activities, emphasizing that this trend can adversely affect the economic health of the nation (!) .
The court permits financial institutions and their officers to challenge the implicated FIRs in the respective High Courts and directs state authorities to review ongoing criminal proceedings related to these FIRs promptly (!) .
The court has ordered that all pending FIRs and related proceedings can be challenged in the High Courts within a specified timeframe, and further directed that interim protections be granted until the final disposal of these petitions (!) .
Interim orders have been issued to prevent coercive steps against the petitioner financial institutions and their officers, until the High Courts decide on the petitions on their merits (!) .
The court emphasizes that all parties are free to raise their legal contentions before the High Courts, which are to decide the cases strictly on their merits and in accordance with law (!) .
Finally, all pending petitions, including contempt petitions and applications, have been disposed of with the directions and observations outlined above (!) .
These points encapsulate the court's recognition of the misuse of criminal proceedings against financial entities, the procedural directions issued, and the emphasis on fair adjudication by the High Courts.
| Table of Content |
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| 1. criminal proceedings against financial institutions may be initiated mala fide. (Para 1 , 2) |
| 2. court recognizes misuse of criminal law against financial entities. (Para 3) |
| 3. pending firs and ecir will be challenged in high court. (Para 4 , 5) |
| 4. permitting high courts to decide on petitions within a specified timeframe. (Para 6 , 7) |
| 5. interim protections granted until high court's final disposal. (Para 8 , 9 , 10) |
| 6. all petitions are disposed of. (Para 11) |
ORDER :
1. Interlocutory applications for impleadment and to bring on record additional facts are allowed.
2. The petitioners’ case is that there is trend of initiating mala fide criminal proceedings against financial institutions/lenders and their officers, representatives and managers, to somehow restrain them from pursuing recovery proceedings of their enforceable debts, and/or to compel them to make settlement of their dues. FIRs are registered to circumvent legally owed debts by scuttling the statutory regime of SARFAESI, and also by projecting a purely civil financial dispute as a criminal matter with a view to intimidate and in abuse of the criminal process.
3. In Priyanka Srivastava vs. State of U.P. , (2015
(1) Miscellaneous application – Post-disposal applications for modification and clarification of disposal order shall lie only in rare cases.(2) Power of recall is different from power of altering/ r....
Exhaustion of statutory remedies before seeking relief through writ petitions is crucial, as emphasized by the court in this judgment.
The main legal point established in the judgment is that when an alternative remedy is available under the SARFAESI Act, a writ petition to set aside the proceeding under the Act may not be entertain....
Criminal proceedings should not be used to settle civil disputes, and the ingredients of criminal offences must be established.
Respondent can pursue both SARFAESI Act and Section 138 NI Act proceedings simultaneously against the same borrower.
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