A student and member of the Cockroach Janata Party has moved the Allahabad High Court to quash an FIR registered against him after he recorded and shared a video showing the condition of a government primary school in Farrukhabad. He argues the FIR discloses none of the ingredients of the offences invoked, that recording a public school’s condition is a matter of legitimate public concern protected by Article 19(1)(a), and that its continuation would be an abuse of process. The allegations are untested.
The Patna High Court has quashed, against the petitioner, a robbery FIR registered at Dhanarua police station, holding it to be an impermissible second FIR over the same transaction, the taking of a Tata Indica and mobile phones, that had already been the subject of an earlier case at Deepnagar. Applying the T.T. Antony ‘test of sameness’, Justice Chandra Shekhar Jha held that continuing the later case would be an abuse of the process of the court.
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.
Kamra told the Court that despite receiving over 500 death threats and requests for virtual questioning, the police were insisting that he appear physically in Mumbai for questioning. MUMBAI: Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra has approached the Bombay High Court seeking to quash an FIR filed against him by the Mumbai Police for allegedly calling Maharashtra […]
The Bombay High Court refused to quash the FIR against former Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu and TDP leader Nakka Ananda Babu, accused of assaulting police in Maharashtra. The court found sufficient evidence and dismissed their petitions. Legal proceedings will continue, marking a significant decision in cases involving high-ranking officials and law enforcement.
The Supreme Court of India, using Article 142, stopped criminal proceedings under IPC Section 498A, addressing mental cruelty by a wife against her ex-husband and relatives, filed six months post-divorce. The court highlighted the exhaustive consideration of the couple’s marital issues during divorce proceedings, deciding that perpetuating the legal battle through criminal proceedings would serve no constructive purpose.
