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2017 Supreme(Gau) 430

IN THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH)
HITESH KUMAR SARMA, J.
Anil Todi @ Anil Kumar Todi, Son of Sri Niranjan Lal Todi & Ors. - Petitioners
VERSUS
The State of Assam, Son of Late Probhat Kumar Sarkar & Ors. - Opposite parties
Criminal PetitionNo. 279 of 2015
Decided On : 24-05-2017

Advocates Appeared:
For the petitioner:Mr. D Das, Sr. Advocate. Mr. H Nath
For the Opposite parties :Ms. S Jahan, Addl. P.P. Advocate. Mr. Dilip Mazumdar, Sr. Advocate

Headnote:

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - Section 482 – Criminal Trial – Offence – Evidence - Proprietor of Feed Stores and dealer of power tillers and tractors, filed a complaint case that the opposite party No 2 visited the accused for purchase of numbers of Power Tillers and made advance payment - Delivery was not made as agreed to, the opposite party No 2 went to the office of the accused, but found that the office did not exist – Held, Apart, the order of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, directing the petitioners to appear personally in the Court and not allowing them to be represented by their learned counsel in the Court, vide order and dismissal of the revision petition filed by the petitioners against the said order of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, passed in Criminal Revision are matters that can again be agitated before the learned trial Court on appropriate ground and the learned trial Court can consider such prayer if the identity of the petitioners is not disputed - This is an observation only and the learned trial Court will be at liberty to take an independent decision if it is approached by the petitioners with such a prayer - However, there is no illegality in the aforesaid orders justifying their quashment - Petition dismissed

JUDGMENT & ORDER :

1. This is a petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. for quashing the orders dated 30-05-2014 and 29-01-2015, passed in CR 243C/2014, by the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Darrang, Mangaldai as well as the order dated 24-03-2015, passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Darrang, Mangaldai, in Criminal Revision 16(D-1) 2015 and to quash the whole proceedings of CR Case No. 243C/2014.

2. I have heard Mr. Diganta Das, learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of petitioner and Ms. S Jahan, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, Assam, for opposite party No. 1. Also heard Mr. Dilip Mazumdar, learned senior counsel for the opposite party No. 2.

3. The brief fact of the case is that on 22-04-2014, opposite party No. 2 herein, who is the proprietor of M/S D&N Enterprise & M/S Hira Feed Stores and dealer of power tillers and tractors, filed a complaint case being Complaint Case No. 243C of 2014, in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Darrang, Mangaldai. The allegation made in the complaint is that on 17-03-2005, the complainant/opposite party No. 2 visited the common office of M/S Khazana Agricultural Equipments Ltd. and of Siva-Durga Finance & Investments Private Limited, Kolkata of the accused/petitioners for purchase of 40 numbers of Khazana S-1100 Power Tillers and made advance payment of Rs. 25 Lakhs. The said Power Tillers were to be delivered at Guwahati by Siva-Durga Finance & Investments Private Limited.

4. Since the delivery was not made as agreed to, the complaint/opposite party No. 2 went to the office of the accused/petitioners at Kolkata, but found that the office did not exist. The complainant visited several times to Kolkata in search of the accused/petitioners, but to no avail.

5. The complainant/opposite party No. 2 could collect the address and contact number of the accused/petitioner No. 1, though applications dated 21-01-2013 and 24-01-2013, under the Right to Information Act, to the Assam Plains Tribes Development Corporation Limited, where the accused/petitioner No. 1 supplied Power Tillers.

6. On 04-03-2013, the accused/petitioner No. 1 made a call to the complainant and told him that he had some material proof, which would cause damage to the complainant/opposite party No. 2 and so he should pay him a sum of Rs. 5 Lakhs to avoid being exposed.

7. Thereafter, accused/petitioner No. 2 came to Guwahati and made a call to him, which call the complainant/opposite party No. 2 did not receive. Thereafter, the accused/petitioner No. 2 visited the Plains Tribe Corporation, Guwahati and introduced himself as an employee of accused/petitioner No. 1. The accused/petitioner No. 2 informed the complainant/opposite party No. 2 to meet him at his place of stay at Guwahati, but the complainant/opposite party No. 2 sent his representative to his place of stay i.e., Hotal Mayur, and got a legal notice served on accused/petitioner No. 2, which he received with acknowledgement. The complainant/respondent No. 2 sent a legal notice to the accused/petitioner No. 1 also, but did not receive any response.

8. Thereafter, the complainant/opposite party No. 2, by letter dated 10-04-2013, sought information of payment made in respect of Cheque No. 027676 out of the account of the complaint/opposite party No. 2 and received the statement of transaction of Current Account of the Farm of the complaint/opposite party No. 2 showing that Rs. 25 Lakhs have been withdrawn from the account on 17-03-2005. Thereafter, the complaint/opposite party No. 2 sought for information from Kolkata Branch of ICICI Bank on 26-06-2013 regarding payment made in respect of Cheque No. 027676 and demand draft No. 63439226, issued vide instrument No. 279055 dated 17-03-2005.

9. On 17-04-2014 the complainant/opposite party No. 2 received reply dated 11-04-2014 from the authorised signatory of ICICI Bank stating that said demand draft was credited on 18-03-2005 to the A/C No. 003405002291 of Siva-Durga Finance & Investment Limited and the complainant/r







































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