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SHAMPA DUTT (PAUL)
Sabyasachi Dutta – Appellant
Versus
State of West Bengal – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Shampa Dutt (Paul), J.
1. The present revision has been preferred praying for quashing of the proceedings being Lake Town Police Station Case No. 80/2020 dated 08.06.2020 under Sections 323 /354/326/506/34 of the INDIAN PENAL CODE now pending before the Court of the Learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bidhannagar, North 24 Parganas (corresponding to G.R. Case No. 353/2020).
2. The petitioner’s case is that the petitioner herein is a supporter of the ideologies of a particular political party and is presently holding the post of Secretary of the aforesaid political party.
3. The petitioner states that the pristine image of the petitioner herein is being thoroughly tarnished and demolished at the behest of Police Administration in connivance with the ruling party of the State of West Bengal, ever since the petitioner has joined the rival political faction. The petitioner has been unnecessarily embroiled in connection with the instant false and malicious case, allegations of which are purely a figment of imagination of the opposite party no. 2.
4. On 08.06.2020 when the petitioner along with his two party workers and accompanying security personnel were going to meet,
Legal proceedings can be quashed if they are established to be maliciously instituted without sufficient evidence, causing an abuse of judicial process.
The absence of prima facie evidence in criminal allegations justifies quashing proceedings to prevent abuse of the judicial process.
The court quashed criminal proceedings against the petitioner due to lack of prima facie evidence and findings of mala fide intent behind the allegations.
The court emphasized that criminal proceedings must be quashed if they lack prima facie evidence, preventing abuse of the judicial process.
The court can quash criminal proceedings under Article 142 if the allegations do not constitute an offence and are primarily private in nature, especially in cases involving caste-based claims.
The court quashed the FIR due to lack of prima facie evidence, ruling that the allegations did not constitute a cognizable offence and were maliciously instituted.
The court quashed the FIR under the SC/ST Act, finding no prima facie evidence of a cognizable offence, emphasizing the abuse of legal process.
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