Disposed¶17
Subhashchandra Kedarnath Sharma v. Central Bureau of Investigation and Ors.
Bombay HCWP/4035/2024
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
Bombay High Court, Criminal Writ Petition No. 4035 of 2024, decided 24 July 2025 by A.S. Gadkari and Rajesh S. Patil, JJ. Petitioner Subhashchandra Kedarnath Sharma sought quashing of FIR(s); petition disposed as infructuous because trial of the present crime had commenced and four witnesses had been examined. Keywords: quashing of FIR, infructuous, trial commenced, CBI, State of Maharashtra, criminal writ jurisdiction. Useful only as a procedural precedent that pending trial renders quashing relief infructuous; contains no ratio on merits.
What did the court decide?
Since the trial of the present crime had already commenced and the evidence of four witnesses had been recorded, the substantive relief for quashing of FIRs had become infructuous ¶15-16