Syed Shahnawaz Ali vs State of Madhya Pradesh

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2025 Supreme(SC) 2100

SANJAY KAROL, MANOJ MISRA
Syed Shahnawaz Ali – Appellant
Versus
State of Madhya Pradesh – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant(s) : Mr. Suhail Khan, Adv. Mr. Chand Qureshi, AOR Mr. Farid Ahmad Nizami, Adv. Mr. Vishal Raj Sehijpal, Adv. Mr. Mujahid Ahmad, Adv. Ms. Talat Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Shoeb Shakeel, Adv. Ms. Vratika Mittal, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Handa, Adv. Mr. Sadiq Ali Khan, Adv.
For the Respondent(s): Mr. D. S. Parmar, A.A.G. Ms. Mrinal Gopal Elker, AOR Mr. Sarthak Raizada, Adv. Mr. Amit Sharma, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Singh, Adv. Mr. Chinmoy Chaitanya, Adv. Mr. Aditya Chaudhary, Adv. Ms. Silpi S Swain, Adv. Mr. Jagdish Trivedi, Adv. Mr. Sriram P., AOR

Table of Content
1. registration and proceedings of fir (Para 2 , 3 , 4 , 5)
2. legal status of victim and abatement (Para 6 , 7 , 8 , 9)
3. nature of revisional power and abatement (Para 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18)
4. finding on the unsustainability of the high court's order (Para 19 , 20)
5. restoration of revision and next steps (Para 21 , 22 , 23)

JUDGMENT :

MANOJ MISRA, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. These two appeals arise from a common proceeding and are directed against the orders of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Jabalpur¹[The High Court] dated 21.02.2024 and 31.08.2024 passed in Criminal Revision No. 1986 of 2020 and Misc. Criminal Case (MCRC) No. 36327 of 2024 respectively.

Facts

3. The father of the appellant, Shamshad Ali, filed an application under Section 156(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973²[Cr.P.C.] for registering a first information report³[FIR] against respondents 2 to 5. The said application was allowed, an FIR was registered and investigated. After investigation, police report was submitted indicting respondents 2 to 5 for offences punishable under Sections 419 , 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B and 34 of INDIAN PENAL CODE , 1860⁴[IPC]. However, vide o