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‘Criminal Law Machinery Can’t Be Used To Wreak Vengeance’: SC Quashes Forgery Case Against Uttar Pradesh Man

A bench comprising justices B.V. Nagarathna and R. Mahadevan quashed the over two-decade-old case case saying the multiple FIRs reinforces the inference of mala fides.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said that the machinery of criminal law cannot be permitted to be misused for settling civil disputes or to wreak vengeance, while quashing a over two-decade old forgery and cheating case against a resident of Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh.

The judgment was delivered by a bench comprising justices B.V. Nagarathna and R. Mahadevan. The bench, in a judgment delivered on September 24, said even if the allegations are assumed to be true, they unmistakably arise

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