Sri. Venkappa Lamani @ Venkatesh Nayak v. the State of Karnataka
Case brief
What is this about?
Quashing petition, High Court of Karnataka: criminal case born of respondent No. 2's complaint over alleged termination of her distributorship; petitioner (accused No. 2) alleged only to have instigated two co-accused who abused the complainant and her husband; no material showing his involvement; prosecution held abusive of the process of law; proceedings quashed insofar as they related to the petitioner. CAUTION: the judgment body is corrupted by legacy font encoding; case number, dates, coram, party and advocate names, section numbers and cited precedents are illegible and were left null rather than guessed.
What did the court decide?
Petition allowed; the pending criminal proceedings are quashed insofar as they relate to the petitioner, who is arrayed as accused No. 2. ¶63