Nagaraja v. State of Karnataka
Case brief
What is this about?
Externment; Section 55 Karnataka Police Act; externment order dated 29.03.2023; Mag No.1/Externment/2023; Special District Magistrate and Deputy Commissioner of Police Bengaluru West; CRL.RP No. 450 of 2023; Cr.P.C. S.397 r/w S.401; revision petition dismissed as infructuous; externment period expired during pendency; counsel's Memo; Nagaraja; State of Karnataka CCB B Organised Crime Wing; High Court of Karnataka; Ravi V Hosmani; 09.10.2025.
What did the court decide?
Taking the Memo filed by learned counsel for petitioner on record, the High Court of Karnataka dismissed the Revision Petition as having become infructuous, since the period fixed for externment under the impugned order had been spent during pendency of the petition; the merits of the externment order were not adjudicated. ¶27