Scania Commercial Vehicles India Pvt. Ltd. vs State of Karnataka

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2022 Supreme(Kar) 416

Scania Commercial Vehicles India Pvt. Ltd. – Appellant
Versus
State of Karnataka – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioners: C.V. Nagesh, Shwetha Ravishankar.
For the Respondents: K.P. Yashodha, Sandesh J. Chouta, Ismail M. Musba.

ORDER :

1. The petitioners are before this Court seeking quashment of entire proceedings in Crime No. 35 of 2020 arising out of a complaint registered on 06-04-2020 for offences punishable under Sections 406, 420, 120B and 34 of the IPC.

2. Brief facts that lead the petitioners to this Court in the subject petition, as borne out from the pleadings, are as follows:

2nd respondent/Mr. K.T. Rajashekar is the complainant. The petitioners are accused Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9 in the aforesaid crime. M/s Scania Commercial Vehicles India Private Limited/petitioner No. 1 a subsidiary of M/s Scania CV AB, a Sweden based holding Company belonging to Volkswagen group claims to have its presence in more than 100 countries and is also in the business of manufacturing commercial and luxury segment buses. Scania buses and coaches are said to have inspired people who travel throughout the country. As a part of many such sale deals several reputed buses and truck dealers are customers of Scania vehicles. The customers include Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation, Kerala State Road Transport Corporation, Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation, Telangana State Road Transport Corporation