Sonu Gupta @ Sonu @ Sonu Kumar v. The State of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
Patna High Court Crim. Misc. No. 22924 of 2024 (oral order, 10-01-2025, Arun Kumar Jha, J) dismissed for non-prosecution; arising out of PS Case No. 787 of 2022, Gopalganj complaint case. Keywords: dismissed for non-prosecution; petitioner absent on call and on last date; petitioner lost interest in case; petitioner Sonu Gupta @ Sonu @ Sonu Kumar; opposite parties the State of Bihar and Mamta Devi; A.P.P. Sanjay Kumar Tiwary; advocate Lokesh Kumar Singh. Useful for precedents on procedural dismissal of criminal miscellaneous petitions for want of prosecution rather than on substantive merits.
What did the court decide?
As none appeared for the petitioner on call, and none had appeared even on the last date, it seemed the petitioner had lost interest in his case. ¶18