M/S D.B. Construction v. Kamalchand Jat S/O Shri Sitaram Jat
Case brief
What is this about?
In this criminal miscellaneous petition, the High Court of Rajasthan, Bench at Jaipur, quashed the Section 315 proceeding challenging the maintenance order. The Court held that while summons are desirable for the accused to attend, they are not mandatory if the accused has appeared multiple times through counsel and did not rely exclusively on the summons to participate.
What did the court decide?
Section 315 proceeding was quashed; summons was not mandatory for accused present via counsel.