Pakir Chandrashekhar Reddy v. the State of Karnataka
Case brief
What is this about?
Quashing of FIR under S.482 dismissed as infructuous; CRL.P No. 8480 of 2019; High Court of Karnataka; Justice Ravi V Hosmani; decision dated 24-06-2026; FIR Cr.No.131/2019 Sanjay Nagar Police Station Bangalore; complainant/respondent No.2 Smt. Mekala Manjuladevi; offences under Sections 420, 354, 448, 506 r/w 34 IPC; case pending before VIII Addl.C.M.M. Bengaluru; charges framed and trial commenced during pendency; memo taken on record; liberty reserved to petitioners to urge contentions before trial Court; petitioners Pakir Chandrashekhar Reddy and Jeevan Kumar Reddy; advocate Murugesh V Charati; HCGP Sowmya R.; advocate Unnikrishnan M.
What did the court decide?
Taking the memo on record and reserving liberty to the petitioners to urge all contentions urged in the petition before the trial Court at the appropriate stage, the Court dismissed the petition as having become infructuous, since charges had been framed and trial had commenced; no adjudication was made on the merits of quashing.