{"id":260810,"date":"2002-08-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-08T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/a-k-gupta-vs-loyds-steel-industries-ltd-and-on-9-august-2002"},"modified":"2018-06-06T00:42:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T19:12:20","slug":"a-k-gupta-vs-loyds-steel-industries-ltd-and-on-9-august-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/a-k-gupta-vs-loyds-steel-industries-ltd-and-on-9-august-2002","title":{"rendered":"A.K. Gupta vs Loyds Steel Industries Ltd. And &#8230; on 9 August, 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Andhra High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">A.K. Gupta vs Loyds Steel Industries Ltd. And &#8230; on 9 August, 2002<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 2002 (2) ALD Cri 366<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: C Somayajulu<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: C Somayajulu<\/div>\n<p id=\"p_1\">ORDER<\/p>\n<p>C.Y. Somayajulu, J.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1\">1. This petition is filed to quash the proceedings in C.C. No. 71\/1999 on the file of the Court IV Metropolitan Magistrate, Nampally, Hyderabad, on the basis of ratio laid down in S.P. Sampathy Vs. Manju Gupta and another, 2002(1) ALD (Crl.) 619 (A.P.) where a Division Bench of this Court held that a complaint signed by a general Power of Attorney of the payee is not maintainable.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_2\"> 1st respondent- in this case M\/s. Lloyd Steel Industries Ltd. is the complainant. The complaint shows it bears the stamp of &#8220;M\/s. Lloyd Steel Industries Limited&#8221;, and on its behalf some body affixed his signature.  Complainant, being a company registered under the provision of the <a href=\"\/doc\/1353758\/\" id=\"a_1\">Companies Act<\/a>, is only an artificial person.  So it cannot sign and some body has to sign and act on its behalf.  The question whether the person who affixed signature to the complaint on its behalf was duly authorised or not by M\/s. Lloyd Steel Industries Ltd., has to be decided at the time of trial and cannot be gone into in proceedings filed under <a href=\"\/doc\/1679850\/\" id=\"a_1\">Section 482<\/a> Cr.P.C. for quashing the complaint.  Had the stamp of the complainant company not been affixed at the bottom of every page, and had the person authorised only had affixed his signature to the complaint without mentioning that he is signing for or on behalf of the complainant then, the petitioner could, by relying on the above decision seek quashing of the complaint, but not in a case like this.  Since the payee of the dishonoured cheque is M\/s. Lloyd Steels Industries Ltd., and the complaint was signed on its behalf, but not by a general power of attorney of M\/s. Lloyd Steel Industries Ltd., I see no reasons or grounds to quash the complaint.  Petitioner is at liberty to raise all the contentions, now raised, before the trial Court.  Petition is dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andhra High Court A.K. Gupta vs Loyds Steel Industries Ltd. And &#8230; on 9 August, 2002 Equivalent citations: 2002 (2) ALD Cri 366 Author: C Somayajulu Bench: C Somayajulu ORDER C.Y. Somayajulu, J. 1. This petition is filed to quash the proceedings in C.C. 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