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IPC 420 or 120B: Breach of Contract & Cheating

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SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Umashankar v/s State of Bihar 2005 (10) SCC 336 : 2006 (2) SCC (cri.) 49 I.P.C, ss. 420 & 120-B – Breach of Contract -Whether it would amount cheating or not – Held, only in those cases breach of contract would amount to cheating where there was any deception played at very inception – if intention to cheat has developed later on, same cannot amount to cheating. Read More…

Married man acquitted of promising marriage to woman, cheating her; after 25-yr-long court battle

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Forty-seven years on, a saga that started with an alleged relationship in school and dragged on in courts for 25 years has finally ended, with a magistrate court acquitting the man of cheating the now 62-year old woman. The woman had accused the married man and father of one of pretending to be single, promising to marry her, engaging in sexual relations with her between 1986 and 1990, clicking hRead More…