Allowed
Kalyani v. the State of Karnataka
Karnataka HCCRL.P/200019/2025
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
Criminal revision against a Magistrate's order directing surrender of a passport in a Section 125 CrPC maintenance matter. The court held the order unsustainable, noting the petitioner had appeared pursuant to summons and no other coercive steps were pending, and allowed the revision.
What did the court decide?
Revision allowed; direction to surrender passport set aside; liberty to approach the trial court for release of the passport subject to conditions imposed by it.