Courts have long held that mere receipt of money obtained through cheating does not implicate a recipient as an accused unless evidence shows they: The burden lies on the prosecution to demonstrate ...

Mumbai, Dec 16: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai Police has invoked Section 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code in an FIR registered at the instance of Deepak Kothari against actor ...

For the uninitiated, IPC 420 literally means Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code, which deals with offenses relating to cheating and dishonesty. Director Manish Gupta’s, ‘420 IPC’, is an intriguing, ...

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has registered a case against the Bollywood couple Shilpa Shetty and her husband Raj Kundra. The couple are booked under the charge of cheating, Section 420 of the ...

In the absence of a stringent law to punish hoax callers, cops often tweak the law to implicate them in harsher sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). However, the Azad Maidan police have set a new ...