Mrs Kunji v. State of Karnataka
Case brief
What is this about?
NC: 2025:KHC:39594; HC-KAR; High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru; WP No. 10692 of 2025 (GM-POLICE); Justice Suraj Govindaraj; order dated 08.10.2025. Subject matter as prayed: police demanding money from petitioner/family; return of gold chain taken from petitioner's daughter-in-law in hospital post-delivery; action on complaint dated 20/3/25 at ANNEXURE-G against defaulting police personnel; Nelamangala Rural Police Station; Dy.SP; State of Karnataka; Article 226. Disposed at preliminary hearing: writ petition dismissed as withdrawn on memo dated 08.10.2025 signed by counsel Dilraj Jude Rohit Sequeira; AGA K.P. Yashodha for respondents. No ruling on merits, no cases cited, no quantum; limited precedential value, at most as an example of disposal of a writ petition on a counsel-filed withdrawal memo.
What did the court decide?
Accepting the memo dated 08.10.2025 signed by the learned counsel for the petitioner, by which the petitioner stated she did not intend to continue the case and sought withdrawal, the Court dismissed the writ petition as withdrawn. None of the substantive reliefs was adjudicated and no relief was granted.