Supreme Court of India
Ahmad Ali Quraishi and Anr. v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.
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What the Court ordered
In view of the foregoing discussions, we are of the view that in permitting Criminal proceedings against the appellant shall be permitting a criminal proceeding which has been maliciously instituted with ulterior motives, permitting such criminal proceeding to go on is nothing but the abuse of the procees of the Court which needs to be interfered b y this Court.
Judgment, page 15
From the headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s.482 – Inherent power of High Court – Appellants-accused and respondent n o.2- complainant belong to same family and are neighbours – In 2015 , father of the accused filed suit against the complainant for partition of properties which led to several altercations among t he parties – On 29.08.16, complainant filed application u/s.156( 3), CrPC alleging that on 19.07.16 when his daughters had gone to public hand pump outside their house for fetching water, t he accused persons indulged in indecent gestures towards them a nd had also beaten them – It was
Authorities it was built on
- 1990 State of Haryana and Ors v. Ch. Bhajan Lal and Ors.
- 1977 State of Karnataka v. L. Muniswamy & Ors.
- 2002 State of Karnataka v. M. Devendrappa and Anr.
- 2017 Vineet Kumar & Ors. v. State of U.P. & Anr.
- 2005 Anwarul Haq v. The State of Uttar Pradesh
- 2009 Sundar Babu and Anr. v. State of Tamil Nadu
- 2017 Md. Sajjad @ Raju @ Salim v. State of West Bengal
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