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REPORTABLE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.517 OF 2014

(Arising out of Special Leave Petition (Crl) No. 6138 OF 2006)

CBI, ACB, MUMBAI

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... APPELLANT (S)

VERSUS

NARENDRA LAL JAIN & ORS.

... RESPONDENT (S)

J U D G M E N T

RANJAN GOGOI, J.

1.

Leave granted.

2.

The appellant, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)

ACB, Mumbai seeks to challenge an order dated 28.10.2005

passed by the High Court of Bombay quashing the criminal

proceedings against the respondents Narendra Lal Jain,

Jayantilal L. Shah and Ramanlal Lalchand Jain. The aforesaid

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respondents had moved the High Court under Section 482

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short “Cr.P.C.”)

challenging the orders passed by the learned Trial Court

refusing to discharge them and also questioning the

continuance of the criminal proceedings registered against

them. Of the three accused, Jayantilal L. Shah, the court is

informed, has died during the pendency of the present

appeal truncating the scope thereof to an adjudication of the

correctness of the decision of the Hig