Dattu Jadhav S/O Narsing Jadhav v. the State of Karnataka and Anr.
Case brief
What is this about?
Karnataka High Court criminal petition allowed; quashing of trial-stage proceedings for unlawful-assembly-related offences where only the petitioner's presence at the spot was noted, no overt act or common object attributed, complaint named no individuals, and case stagnant without charges framed — abuse of process. Keywords: quashing, unlawful assembly, mere presence, overt act, common object, charge-sheet, stagnation, abuse of process, burial-rights dispute, funeral gathering. Caution: judgment supplied in corrupted font encoding; verifiable identifiers (case number, sections, dates, names) unavailable.
What did the court decide?
Criminal petition allowed; the pending criminal proceedings were quashed as far as the petitioner is concerned, and all pending interlocutory applications were disposed of. ¶76