The Calcutta High Court has set aside a Special Court’s acceptance of a ‘Nil/No clue’ police report in an SC/ST Act case over alleged casteist Facebook posts, holding that ‘public view’ extends to the digital domain and ordering further investigation by specialised cyber-forensic personnel under DCP supervision.
A woman secured an accelerated mutual-consent divorce after undertaking before the Family Court to withdraw a pending Section 498A case against her former husband, then refused to do so. The Calcutta High Court quashed the proceedings under Section 482, holding that with the marriage dissolved, all claims settled and the complainant remarried, continuing the trial served no public interest and was a manifest abuse of process.
