In Ramesh Dahyalal Shah vs The State of Maharashtra and other matters, the Bombay High Court recently allowed a batch of applications seeking quashing of an FIR registered for offences under sections 418, 420, 465, 467, 468, 471, 477(a), 506(2) read with 120(b) of the Indian Penal Code.
The division bench of Justice Ranjit More and Justice Shalini Phansalkar Joshi held that when dispute is of civil nature, giving the proceedings a criminal colour is abuse of the process of law.
Article referred: http://www.livelaw.in/dispute-civil-nature-giving-proceedings-criminal-colour-abuse-process-law-bombay-hc-read-judgment/
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