Dismissed¶¶24
Sri. K. U. Ananda v. State by Somwarpet Police
Karnataka HCCRL.RP/338/2017
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
Abatement of a criminal revision petition on the death of the sole petitioner. High Court of Karnataka (S Vishwajith Shetty, J., order dated 17.02.2026) dismissed CRL.RP No. 338 of 2017 as abetted after counsel's memo dated 19.11.2025 and death certificate established that petitioner K.U. Ananda, convicted and sentenced under Section 408 IPC (C.C.No.515/2006, judgment dt. 16.01.2015; Crl.A.No.15/2015, judgment dt. 08.02.2017), had died on 28.06.2019. Keywords: death of sole accused, abatement, S.397/401 Cr.P.C, S.408 IPC, Karnataka.
What did the court decide?
The Court recorded that the death certificate produced along with the memo dated 19.11.2025 shows that the sole petitioner K.U. Ananda died on 28.06.2019. ¶¶23