Supreme Court · 2000
Hridaya Ranjan Prasad Verma v. State of Bihar
(2000) 4 SCC 168
Cheating needs a dishonest intention at the moment the promise is made. A promise broken later is a civil dispute, not an offence.
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Find cases citing a specific statute section with equivalent new code mappings.
Indian judgments cite sections in every form — “s. 420 IPC”, “Section 420 of the Penal Code”, “u/s 318(4) BNS”. The search reads all of them as one section, then adds the matching number in the other code. Since 1 July 2024 most offences carry a BNS number and most procedure a BNSS number, but rulings decided before that date still cite the old one. You get both in one list, with the court and citation on every result.
Three Supreme Court rulings that come up again and again when a cheating FIR is challenged — the kind of result a search for “420” brings back:
Supreme Court · 2000
(2000) 4 SCC 168
Cheating needs a dishonest intention at the moment the promise is made. A promise broken later is a civil dispute, not an offence.
Supreme Court · 2007
(2007) 12 SCC 1
A cheating FIR can be quashed when the dispute is really civil and the complaint is being used to pressure the other side.
Supreme Court · 2015
(2015) 8 SCC 293
Every breach of contract is not cheating. The deceit has to be shown from the start of the transaction.
Examples, not a full result list — a real search returns more, and the list grows as judgments are added.
Search the number the court will use. For an offence, the date of the offence decides the code. For a procedure — bail, quashing, appeal — most High Courts go by the date the proceeding was filed, though Rajasthan High Court has tied it to the FIR date.
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IPC 420
Offence committed on or before 30 June 2024.
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Offence committed on or after 1 July 2024.
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