Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 55 · Decided 20 January 2015
Manik Taneja & ANR. v. State of Karnataka & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 55 · [2015] 1 S.C.R. 156
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 141/2015
- Decided
- 20 January 2015
- Bench
- V. GOPALA GOWDA, R. BANUMATHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 353, 506, 503; CrPC Section 482
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 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. E Allowing the appeal, the Court HELD:
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