H. R. Varadaraja Pillai v. State of Karnataka
Case brief
What is this about?
NC: 2026:KHC:30153 — High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru, CRL.P No. 6512 of 2019, Oral Order dated 18 June 2026 by Ravi V Hosmani J. Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. by 35 petitioners (lead petitioner: H. R. Varadaraja Pillai; counsel: Sri Prithvi Raj B N) to quash proceedings in C.C.No.1104/2018 before the Principal Senior Civil Judge and JMFC, Hunsur, against respondent No.1 State of Karnataka (Hunsur Town Police Station; HCGP Sri Channappa Erappa) and respondent No.2 SI Shanmugam M (served). Dismissed as infructuous on HCGP memo recording discharge order dated 26.11.2020; no merits adjudication, no precedent discussed.
What did the court decide?
The learned HCGP filed a memo stating that during pendency of the petition, proceedings in CC no.1104/2018 had ended in an order of discharge passed by the Principal Senior Civil Judge and JMFC at Hunsur on 26.11.2020, rendering the petition infructuous; the Court took the memo on record.