P&H: Direction for registration of FIR On Complaint Over Alleged Fake Job Scam; Quashes Magistrate’s Order Treating It As Private Complaint. High Court has directed Police to register an FIR, complaint filed alleging a fake job racket run using the airline’s official email systems. Court set aside a Magistrate’s order that had treated company’s plea under Section 156(3) CrPC as a private complaint. Airline alleged that its then Senior Manager created fake email IDs on
P&H: Direction for registration of FIR On Complaint Over Alleged Fake Job Scam; Quashes Magistrate’s Order Treating It As Private Complaint.
punjab-haryana
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22 May 2026
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Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Ss.482, 397 — Quashing of proceedings - Availability of revisional remedy u/s 397 Cr.P.C. does not create an absolute bar to exercise of jurisdiction u/s 482 Cr.P.C. where interference is necessary to prevent abuse of process and to secure the ends of justice - Petition u/s 482 Cr.P.C. was entertainable in the peculiar facts alleging failure of statutory machinery to act on information disclosing cognizable offences. (Para 8) Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Ss.156(3),
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