The High Court of Judicature at Bombay, in Criminal Appeal No. 499 of 2012, dismissed an application filed by an appellant (nee Minoo M. Mistry) challenging the acquittal of an accused for cheating. The court held that the appellant's lack of due vigilance does not clothe the accused with the ingredients of cheating. It found no perversity in the reasons recorded by the lower appellate court for acquitting the accused, holding that the application has no merit and is accordingly dismissed. The court noted that had the appellant obtained a title search, the opportunity for the accused to commit the alleged cheat would not have arisen.