In Brief
Bandekar Brothers Pvt. Ltd. challenged the conversion of their criminal complaints into private complaints and the issuance of process against them for allegedly forging debit notes. The Court held that Section 195(1)(b) CrPC does not bar complaints alleging offences committed before a document enters court custody. The Court also found that forgery requires the specific intent to make a document appear to be made by another person, which was not established for the debit notes in question. The Court allowed the appeals in part by quashing the private complaints and reinstating the original complaints so they could proceed through proper criminal procedure.
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