Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 511 · Decided 10 May 2023
Sri Gulam Mustafa v. The State of Karnataka & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 511 · [2023] 5 S.C.R. 354
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1452/2023
- Decided
- 10 May 2023
- Bench
- DINESH MAHESHWARI, AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 482; Constitution Article 142
Headnote
Administration of Justice -Abuse of Process of Law - Civil dispute relating to land given the colour of criminality - Held: There is a huge unexplained delay of over 60 years in initiating dispute with regard to the ownership of the land Criminal case was lodged only after failure to obtain relief in the civil suits coupled with denial of interim relief to the respondent no.2/her family members - Thus, criminal proceedings were resorted to with ulterior motives, for oblique reasons and vengeance - Further, even if the
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