Dismissed
Pankaj Tukaram Bagal v. the State of Maharashtra and Anr.
Bombay HCWP/841/2018
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
The bench dismissed criminal writ petitions challenging orders allowing an application for dismissal of prosecution for want of jurisdiction under section 142A of the N.I. Act. The court held that the Magistrate had jurisdiction even though the prosecution predates the insertion of section 142A.
What did the court decide?
All the writ petitions stood dismissed with no relief granted to the petitioner.