Ratan Chakraborty & Anr vs The State Of West Bengal & Anr on 8 April, 2011
30. Having regard to the submission of the learned Advocates for the
parties, materials on record and other circumstances, it appears that
though as per the submission of the learned Advocate for the petitioners
the dispute involved in this matter is a civil dispute having two successive
agreements between the parties and having an order of the Consumer
Disputes Redressal Forum concerned the petitioners have already
complied with the direction of the said Forum, and so no criminal
proceeding can be proceeded with regarding the alleged offences under
Sections 406/420 of the Indian Penal Code against the present petitioners,
yet it also appears that the petitioners have paid an amount of Rs.
52,000/- only to the opposite party No.2 as compensation and cost, and
complied with the directions of the said Forum in part only and not
entirely. As per the decision reported in AIR 2009 Supreme Court 2646 in
the case of State of A.P. v. Vangaveeti Nagaiah and (2001) 8 Supreme
Court Case 645 in the case of M. Krishnan V. Vijay Singh And Other
pendency of any civil dispute between the parties cannot be a bar to any
criminal proceedings between the parties nor the same can be ground for
quashing of the criminal proceedings against the accused and inherent
power of the High Court under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal
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Procedure is not to be exercised to stifle a legitimate prosecution and it is
also not the appropriate stage to consider as to whether the criminal
prosecution against the present petitioners as accused persons would
stand or not without taking evidence or trial, nor it can be ascertained
without taking evidence and trial as to whether the allegations made by the
defacto-complainant against the present petitioners as accused persons
would be substantiated by evidence or not, for which reason it would not
be just, legal and proper at this stage to quash the impugned proceedings.
It also appears that by proceeding with the said criminal proceeding no
abuse of process of the Court would be caused nor the ends of justice
would suffer for not quashing the impugned proceedings, and as such
there is no reason to interfere with the impugned proceedings.