Section 138 NI Act| Once settlement has been entered into, the complainant cannot pursue the original complaint: Supreme Court
The settlement agreement subsumes the original complaint.
civil remedy
In what circumstances can a criminal proceeding be quashed? Supreme Court yet again answers the “hotly debated” question on scope of exercise of HCs’ power under Section 482 CrPC
“The exercise of inherent power of the High Court is an extraordinary power which has to be exercised with great care and circumspection before embarking to scrutinise the complaint/FIR/charge-sheet in deciding whether the case is the rarest of rare case, to scuttle the prosecution at its inception.”