Sri. C S Devaraj Urs v. the Station House Officer
Case brief
What is this about?
HC-Karnataka (M. Nagaprasanna J.), 25-04-2026, WP 31067 of 2025 (GM-RES), NC: 2026:KHC:23527: writ petition for quashing of FIR in Crime No. 70/2025 (dated 11.08.2025, Women Police Station, Chikkamagaluru) under BNS 2023 ss. 74, 115(2), 351(2), 352 and SC/ST (POA) Amendment Act 2015 ss. 3(1)(r), 3(1)(s), 3(2)(va) disposed as infructuous after Respondent No. 1 filed the charge sheet during pendency; disposal based on petitioner's memo, no merits adjudication, no costs; memo sought liberty to file a fresh petition (grant not expressly recorded in the order).
What did the court decide?
Taking the petitioner's memo on record (recording that Respondent No. 1 had filed the charge sheet during the pendency of the petition), the Court, in terms of the memo, disposed of the writ petition as having become infructuous; the merits of the challenge to the FIR were not adjudicated.