Strict Laws Need To Be Initiated For Cheating Cases – Kerala High Court

29 July 2013

Kochi

Kerala High Court on Monday turned down the bail plea of television actress and former Censor Board member Shalu Menon in a cheating case and held it was high time a special legislation with penal provisions was enacted to deal with offences of fraud.

Though Justice SS Sateeshchandran granted bail to Menon in a case registered by police for harbouring prime accused in solar scam, Biju Radhakrishnan, the court turned down her plea in the cheating case.After examining the case diary files, the court found that mass scale cheating and fraud had taken place. “The case reflects the ineffectiveness of penal provisions of IPC to curb the offences of the massive cheating and fraud”, the court observed.

Pointing out that many IPC provisions are “outdated” and an effective law has to be brought out, the court said mischief and fraud had become so rampant and large-scale in the state that the time has come to have a separate legislation with penal provisions to deal with those who defraud the innocent public with false representation.

Source – http://zeenews.india.com/news/kerala/kerala-high-court-wants-strict-laws-to-curb-cheating_865220.html

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