Supreme Court of India
Geo Varghese v. The State of Rajasthan & Anr.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that High Court was not justified in dismissing the application under section 482 CrPC for quashing the First Information Report in exercise of its inherent jurisdiction.
Judgment, page 22
From the headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.482 – Allegation against appellant was that the son of the complainant commit ted suicide due to mental harassment meted out by the appellant – ppellant was physical Training Teacher in the school where c omplainant’s son was student – Appellant was also assigned respo nsibility for maintaining overall discipline by the students of the sch ool – The allegations in the FIR was that the appellant had h arassed and insulted her son in the presence of everyone due to whi ch he was under deep mental pressure and committed suicide – igh Court dismissed s. 482
Authorities it was built on
- 1990 State of Haryana and Ors v. Ch. Bhajan Lal and Ors.
- 1988 Madhavrao Jiwaji Rao Scindia & Anr. Etc. v. Sambhajirao Chandrojirao Angre & Ors. Etc.
- 1977 State of Karnataka v. L. Muniswamy & Ors.
- 2001 Ramesh Kumar v. State of Chhattisgarh
- 2010 S.S. Chheena v. Vijay Kumar Mahajan & Another
- 2019 Ude Singh & Ors. v. State of Haryana
- 2004 M/s Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Ltd. and Ors. v. Md. Sharaful Haque and Ors.
- 2020 Arnab Manoranjan Goswami v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors.
- 2007 P.K. Arjunan v. State of Kerala
- 2018 Narayan Malhari Thorat v. Vinayak Deorao Bhagat and Anr.
Where later benches applied it
- 2024 Nipun Aneja and Others v. State of Uttar Pradesh
- 2024 Naresh Kumar v. State of Haryana
- 2025 Shenbagavalli and Ors. v. The Inspector of Police, Kancheepuram District and Anr.
Of those, 2 relied on · 1 referred to
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