more-inPulling up the investigation officer in a cheating case for being ‘lackadaisical’, a Delhi court has set aside a Magistrate court’s order to sentence an accused to three years’ jail, besides imposing a fine of ₹50,000 on him. ‘No criminal intention’The Magistrate court had acquitted Rajat Khanna saying that he had no criminal intention to cheat the complainants, and that the dispute in question was civil in nature. The Crime Branch had registered a case against the accused in 2004 based on a complaint by two silk fabric suppliers. “I am conscious of the fact that after the deposition by cheated persons, accused Rajat Khanna entered into a compromise with them who compounded the offence of cheating. The Judge also pulled up the investigating officer for not probing charges against the second accused, Sachin Duggal, in a proper manner.

Source: The Hindu July 16, 2017 19:01 UTC