Summoning Order

Summoning order—Civil liability and Criminal culpability—In offences of the nature contemplated under the summoning order, there can be civil liability coupled with criminal culpability— What a party has been deprived of by an act of cheating, can be claimed through a civil action—The same deprivation based on denial by way of deception, emerging from an act of cheating, would also attract criminal liability—Summoning order cannot be quashed merely on the ground that since a civil claim has been raised by the complainant, therefore, initiation of criminal proceedings against the appellants was misconceived—The culpability (if at all) would emerge only after evidence is adduced by the rival parties before the trial court.