Ritesh Kumar Chanduka v. State of Odisha
Case brief
What is this about?
FIR not registered despite lodged complaint; police inaction; Orissa HC (Cuttack) CRLMP 2559/2023 disposed with direction to petitioner to file complaint before Jurisdictional Magistrate as alternative remedy; magistrate court directed to follow dictum of Apex Court in Sudhir Bhaskarrao Tambe v. Hemant Yashwant Dhange (2016) 6 SCC 277 and Shweta Bhadoria v. State of M.P. (2017(i) MPJR 247); bench: Justice Chittaranjan Dash.
What did the court decide?
Petitioner directed to avail the alternative remedy by filing a complaint before the Jurisdictional Magistrate, with the magistrate's court to act in accordance with the cited dicta of the Apex Court; no direction issued to the Police to register the FIR. ¶2