Supreme Court stays criminal proceedings against IREO, Oberoi top brass
Supreme Court has stayed further proceedings in an FIR filed against top brass, including IREO Group Managing Director Lalit Goyal and Oberoi Realty Chairman and Managing Director Vikas Oberoi, under various sections of cheating, criminal breach of trust and forgery.
While seeking response from the Haryana police and others, a vacation Bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kumar and Justice Augustine George Masih said: “...we find that the second complaint (against IREO and Oberoi officials) was made without disclosing the fact that the first complaint had been made, albeit in relation to the letter dated September 9, 2022 supposedly addressed by the complainant (one Chandan Singh) itself which was attacked as a forgery. Significantly, the second complaint does not even mention this letter though it was of relevance.”
“The question as to whether the filing of the second complaint would amount to an abuse of process and as to whether the complainant approached the Court with unclean hands requires further examination,” the apex court said, while posting the matter for further hearing on July 29.
Challenging the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s order that upheld registration of an FIR, both IREO, and Oberoi group moved the Supreme Court alleging that Singh, the authorised representative of Advance India Projects (AIPL) did not disclose the first criminal proceeding where he got no relief and a second complaint was filed in a different police station.
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