Allowed
Kethireddy Venkatarami Reddy v. State of Andhra Pradesh
Telangana HCCRLP/10513/2018
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
In a criminal petition under Section 482 CrPC, the Court held that the Magistrate's cognizance of offences under Section 188 IPC was illegal because the charge sheet was filed by the police instead of the authorized public servant required under Section 195(1)(a) CrPC. Consequently, the proceedings were quashed as an abuse of process.
What did the court decide?
The Criminal Petition was allowed, and the proceedings in Calendar Case No.521 of 2016, pending before the Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Dharmavaram, were quashed.