Mahendra Banjare v. State of Chhattisgarh
Case brief
What is this about?
Mahendra Banjare v. State of Chhattisgarh, CRMP No. 388 of 2023, High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur, order dated 05.02.2026 (Per Ramesh Sinha, CJ; Ravindra Kumar Agrawal, J): Section 482 Cr.P.C. quashing petition concerning charge sheet in Crime No.118/2020 (PS Shivrinarayan, Janjgir-Champa) under Sections 354(C), 354(D), 509(B) IPC and Section 67(A) of the Information and Technology Act, and Criminal Case No.308/2021, dismissed for default and non-prosecution; keywords: quashing, removal of defaults, non-appearance of counsel, dismissal, inherent powers, Chhattisgarh.
What did the court decide?
Since the petitioner neither removed the defaults despite repeated opportunities nor appeared through counsel, and has lost interest in prosecuting the petition, the court is left with no other option but to dismiss the petition on that ground alone.