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Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
Section 294 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
Section 452 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
Section 3 in The Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 [Entire Act]
Section 4 in The Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 [Entire Act]
State Of Haryana And Ors vs Ch. Bhajan Lal And Ors on 21 November, 1990
20. The Supreme Court in State of Haryana v. Bhajan Lal (supra) has
specifically recognized that where a criminal proceeding is manifestly
attended with mala fide or maliciously instituted with an ulterior motive for
wreaking vengeance, the same deserves to be quashed. Applying the said
test, this Court is of the considered opinion that continuation of the
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impugned FIR and consequential proceedings would amount to permitting
the criminal process to be used as a weapon of harassment in a private
matrimonial dispute.
R. P. Kapur vs The State Of Punjab on 25 March, 1960
13. Similarly, in R.P. Kapur v. State of Punjab, AIR 1960 SC 866 , the
Supreme Court held that criminal proceedings may be quashed where the
allegations do not constitute an offence, or where there exists a legal bar to
institution or continuation of proceedings, or where the allegations are so
absurd and inherently improbable that no prudent person could ever reach a
conclusion that there is sufficient ground for proceeding against the accused.
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