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2006 Supreme(All) 3135

[2007(1) ADJ 374]
ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT
BEFORE : VINOD PRASAD, J.
Smt. HEMA PATHAK —Applicant
Versus
STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER —Opposite Parties
(Criminal Misc. Application No. 3087 of 2006, decided on 1st December, 2006)

Advocates appeared:
Raghubir Singh and J.S. Audichya for the Applicant; D.N. Wali, A.G.A. for the Opp. Parties.

Headnote:(A) Criminal Procedure Code, 1973—Sections 482, 156(3), 200 and 202—Complaint—Summoning order—Quashing of—Complaint discloses commission of cognizable offence—However, earlier application under Section 156(3) of CrPC on same subject matter rejected by Courts below—Whether it would operate res-judicata—Rejection of an application under Section 156(3) of CrPC will not operate as res-judicata or ban in filing a criminal complaint—Statements of complainant and his witness recorded under Sections 200 and 202 of CrPC—Discloses only offence under Sections 420, 468 and 471 of IPC—While exercising powers under Section 482 of CrPC it is not function of High Court to critically appreciate allegations levelled in complaint—Once offence is disclosed—Proceedings has to go on. [Paras 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12]

       (B) Criminal Procedure Code, 1973—Section 156(3)—Scope of—Application under Section 156(3) of CrPC—Is clearly different than filing complaint—An application under said section has to be adjudged from point of view as to whether direction for registration or investigation of FIR is to be made or not—Rejection of application under said section is no ground to quash complaint. [Para 10]

       

JUDGMENT

Honble Vinod Prasad, J.—This is an unfortunate case which once again echoes the dictum that nothing counts more in life than money not even uterine relationship of siblings. Out of the two sisters and a brother one sister Smt. Hema Pathak and respondent No. 2 Mukul Pathak are fighting for the fortune-jewellary and ornaments etc., left by their deceased mother tooth and nail. An endeavour by this Court for a long period of many months to get the matter settled outside the Court amicably so that the relationship of brother and sister is cemented happily ever henceforth in this ephemeral life has yielded no result as none of the two sides are ready to budge and they want to fight it with all their might and main. Left with no other option this criminal miscellaneous application is being decided on its merits.

2. Respondent No. 2 Mukul Pathak and applicant No. 1 Hema Pathak are issues of late Sri Rajendra Pathak and Smt. Sudha Rani Pathak. Rajendra Pathak who was a Government servant and Deputy Director in Information and Public Relation Department, Government of U.P. breathed his last on 20-9-1989 survived by his wife Smt. Sudha Rani Pathak, applicant No. 1 Smt. Hema Pathak alongwith one more sister and the respondent No. 2 Mukul Pathak. Fortunately, Sudha Rani Pathak also breathed her last on 19-5-2001 as had she been alive her agony would have been worst than death. Respondent No. 2 Mukul Pathak lodged a complaint before A.C.J.M. Court No. 46, Agra as Complaint Case No. 1681 of 2005, Mukul Pathak v. Hema Pathak and others, under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 404 I.P.C., P.S. Rakabganj, District Agra with epitomized allegations that the two applicants accused Smt. Hema Pathak and Girja Shanker Sharma are husband and wife and were married on 5th June, 1993. The complainant, Mukul Pathak is the only son of his parents and his father had died on 20-9-1989. The mother of the complainant as well as of accused No. 1, Sudha Rani Pathak also left for her heavenly abode on 19-5-2001 due to illness. The complainant and his wife had to look after his deceased mother while she was ill. Late Smt. Sudha Rani Pathak had many gold ornaments, which were kept in her almirah. Accused Smt. Hema Pathak use to visit her ailing mother and in between 4-5-2001 to 19-5-2001, when Smt. Sudha Rani Pathak was hospitalized in S.R. Hospital, Agra and the complainant was looking after her ailing mother, the said accused Smt. Hema Pathak took away all the ornaments and bank paper belonging to Sudha Rani Pathak from her almirah, which fact came to the knowledge of the complainant after her death. On demanding back the said ornaments etc. by the complainant, the two accused Smt. Hema Pathak and her husband Girja Shanker Sharma turned down his request. Late mother Smt. Sudha Rani Pathak, had also a savings bank account/pension account in State Bank main branch, C.P. Tola, Agra and had a deposit of Rs. 50000/- in the said account. The parents of the complainant had also a locker; F.D.Rs., share bonds, Vikas Patra and ornaments, which were kept in the said locker. The details of the ornaments are mentioned in paragraph 7 and 12 of the complaint. After the death of the mother when the complainant went to inquire about the account and the locker he was informed that the applicants accused persons had taken away all the money and the ornaments. The bank people refused to divulge any information to the complainant regarding the fact as to how and why the money and the ornaments were handed over to the two accused when the complainant was the only legal heir of the deceased. Being sure that bank people connived with the accused persons and by making false signature allowed them to take away all the ornaments, cash and other valuable assets from the bank that the complainant filed an application under Section 156(3), Cr.P.C. against the applicants but he failed to obtain any order from the Court. He also failed to get any relief from the revisional Court also in Cri














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