Durai Pandi Nadar v. The Sub Inspector of Police
Case brief
What is this about?
Abatement-on-death criminal revision: sole petitioner Durai Pandi Nadar was reported dead at the hearing of Crl.R.C.(MD)No.805 of 2019 (Section 397 r/w 401 of Cr.P.C), which sought to set aside the conviction confirmation dated 13.09.2019 made in C.A.No.15 of 2016 (1st Additional Sessions Judge, Thoothukudi) upholding the conviction by the Judicial Magistrate, Tiruchendur, in Crime No.88 of 2010 (Kulasekarapattinam Police Station). Mohammed Shaffiq, J. (Madurai Bench, Madras High Court) dismissed the petition as abated on 10.02.2026; no costs; no merits of the conviction challenge were adjudicated; no precedents discussed.
What did the court decide?
Upon learned counsel reporting that the petitioner had died, the Court held that nothing survives for further adjudication in the criminal revision petition. ¶19