police custody for 7 days pursuant to a false and
malicious complaint of Respondent No.1.
4. The Petitioner was a Director along with ... fact that the
case of filing of a false and malicious complaint by any of the
Respondents against the Petitioner was not made
making the complaint has made the
complaint knowing it to be false or the aggrieved woman or any
other person making the complaint has produced ... making the complaint has made the complaint
knowing It to be false or the aggrieved woman or any other
person making the complaint has produced
report, filed by the police closing the complaint, cannot be concluded that the complaint is a malicious one. Hence, prayed for dismissal of the suit ... lodge a complaint to the lawful authorities to investigate the matter. The above complaint cannot be construed as a false complaint without any probable
Section 16 of the Act deals with punishment for false and malicious
complaints. Sections 15 and 16 of the Act read as under:-
Power ... Code of Criminal Procedure,
1973."
Punishment for false and malicious complaints
"16. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, any
person who wilfully
receipt by him."
Just to curb the false or malicious complaint and false evidence, Section 14 has been incorporated, which is reproduced as under ... making the complaint has made the complaint knowing it to be false or the aggrieved woman or any other person making the complaint has produced
space.
12. It is submitted that the defendants had filed the malicious
complaint only to blackmail the plaintiff in respect of the
car parking space ... malicious and false prosecution.
51. It is the plaintiff's case that he had been harassed by a false
and malicious complaint having been
misgivings when they inserted
18
clause 14 (Punishment for false or malicious complaint
and false evidence) in ‘The Sexual Harassment of
women at Workplace (Prevention ... watching and passively
surrendering itself to sometimes prima facie
ex-facie malicious complaint denying simple
bail to the accused? In this regard, perhaps
complaint was found to be untrustworthy and hence
unacceptable since all payments had already been received by
the complainant prior to the lodgement of complaint ... subsequent version of the complainant that he
had lodged a malicious complaint at the instance of a rival of
the appellant.
11. The Special Police
heard to say that he lodged a false complaint maliciously without any justification in the belief that, though supported by his own oath, the Magistrate ... found an action for damages for malicious prosecution. If the Magistrate dismisses the complaint as disclosing no offence with which he can deal
reported
the matter to the IG police, UT Chandigarh on 12.6.2006, vide complaint
(Annexure P6). Instead of taking the legal action against the complainant party ... inescapable that the complainant has filed the instant false criminal complaint
maliciously and vexatiously in order to wreak vengeance, which formed the basis
