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State Of Haryana And Ors vs Ch. Bhajan Lal And Ors on 21 November, 1990

It is also admitted position that the Company did not make the deduction of subscription at the enhanced rate for its wrongful gain because the complainant himself states that the amount of Rs.11,00,000/- deducted from the salary of the employees on account of the subscription of the Union was credited to the Account of the Union. Therefore, in this view of the matter even the admission of facts, as stated in the complaint petition, do not make out any case under Sections 406,467,468,420 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code against the petitioners, who being the responsible officers of the company, made deduction of the Union subscription from the salary of the employees on the instruction of the General Secretary of the Union acting or purporting to act bona fide in good faith on the instruction of the General Secretary of the Union. There is complete absence of any mens rea on the part of the petitioners for committing the alleged offences for which the learned Magistrate has taken cognizance against them and issued summons upon them. As held in the case of State of Haryana and others V. Ch. Bhajan Lal and others ( Supra). This court in exercise of its powers under Section 482 Cr.P.C. has to see that whether the prosecution of the petitioners is an abuse of the process of Court on account of the fact that the complainant has prosecuted them with ulterior motive. The attending facts and circumstances of the case as pointed out by the learned counsel for the petitioners indicate that the complainant was dismissed from the service for his misconduct, so, if this circumstance is considered along with other allegations made in the complaint petition, the possibility cannot be ruled out that the complainant has implicated the petitioners with oblique motive for wreaking vengeance on the accused due to his personal grudge and the prosecution of the petitioners in the case is definitely an abuse of the process of the Court."
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