Akbar Online Booking Company Pvt. Ltd. v. State of Kerala
Case brief
What is this about?
The High Court of Kerala, in criminal miscellaneous petitions filed by accused persons, quashed a private complaint regarding a travel booking discrepancy. The court held that the incident resulted in a civil dispute over deficiency of service rather than criminal misconduct, and proceeding with the criminal case was an abuse of the court's process.
What did the court decide?
Crl.M.Cs. 5670/2017 & 5759/2017, Annexure-A complaint, and all further proceedings in C.C. No. 514/2017 are quashed.