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Manik Taneja & Anr. v. State of Karnataka & Anr.

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Reported as [2015] 1 S.C.R. 156
Bench V. Gopala Gowda and R. Banumathi JJ.
Decided 20 January 2015

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the impugned order of the High Court in Criminal Petition No.252 of 2014 dated 24.4.2014 is set aside C and this appeal is allowed and the FIR in Crime No.174/2013 registered against the appellants is quashed.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.482 - Quashing of criminal proceedings - Permissibility - Comments posed c on Traffic Police Facebook page by the appellant against respondent-Po/ice Inspector alleging harassment - FIR by the Inspector against the appellants ulss 353 and 506 /PC - Petition for quashing FIR - Dismissed by High Court as premature - On appeal, held: The FIR was liable to be 0 quashed as it does not disclose the alleged commission of offence - Continuance of the prosecution would amount to abuse of process ()f the Court - Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 353 and 506. Allowing the

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