The settled law is that there is no such thing as vicarious criminal liability: SC, Senior Advocate Fali S. Nariman appears for Toyota Kirloskar Motors

The complainant, Gautam Sharma, registered an FIR against all of the Directors of Toyota Kirloskar Motors. In an accident in November 2012 in Uttar Pradesh, the airbags of his SUV did not deploy and led to the death of his driver. Mr, Sharma had sustaining injuries. He filed an FIR under sections 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) Indian...