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Kallumatam Gurubasayya vs Sanna Setra Siddalingappa

Madras High Court · Decided on 22 February 1940 · Citation: AIR 1940 Mad 677 : (1940) 51 LW 491 : (1940) 1 MLJ 689

HON’BLE JUDGES
Lakshmana Rao, J
ACTS & SECTIONS REFERRED
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 193
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Lakshmana Rao, J.—The complaint is founded on an allegation in a plaint in a suit for partition and recovery of the share of the vendor of

the accused in the family properties and if the allegation is false the offence would be one u/s 193, Indian Penal Code. A complaint by the Court is

necessary for a prosecution for an offence u/s 193, Indian Penal Code and the parties cannot be permitted to evade that provision of law by filing a

complaint of defamation. In this view it is unnecessary to consider whether a prosecution at this stage is not an abuse of the process of Court and

the charge is quashed.