Binod Sitaram Agarwal v. the Police Commissioner and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Bombay High Court, Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction; WRIT PETITION NO. 5513 OF 2025; Binod Sitaram Agarwal v. The Police Commissioner and others; decided 9 December 2025 by A. S. Gadkari and Ranjitsinha Raja Bhonsale, JJ. Keywords: Article 226 Constitution of India; lodgment of crime; FIR registration; maintainability of writ petition; non-cognizance of complaint dated 1st April 2025; M.Subramaniam v. S. Janaki (2020) 16 SCC 728; private complaint before jurisdictional Magistrate; liberty to withdraw; disposed as withdrawn. Advocates: Pradeep Havnur (Petitioner); Vinod Chate, A.P.P. (Respondent-State).
What did the court decide?
Petition permitted to be withdrawn with liberty to file a private complaint before the jurisdictional Magistrate on the basis of the complaint dated 1st April 2025. ¶20