Overview
- The couple faced charges of cheating, criminal breach of trust and conspiracy after an FIR alleged they paid ₹3.5 lakh for plywood but left ₹12.59 lakh unpaid
- The bench reaffirmed that a completed sale transaction ordinarily cannot constitute criminal breach of trust under established precedent
- The court found the Rajasthan High Court’s reliance on police machinery for civil debt recovery to be legally unsound
- In a rare move, justices made an exception to their usual restraint on overturning high-court bail refusals due to clear misapplication of law
- Justice Pardiwala retracted his earlier criticism of an Allahabad High Court judge following Chief Justice Gavai’s intervention