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2023 Supreme(Guj) 720

M. R. MENGDEY
Prashant Sonaji Mesra (Thakor) – Appellant
Versus
State of Gujarat – Respondent


Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant : B.A. Surti.
For the Respondents: H.R. Prajapati, Manan S. Mehta.

JUDGMENT :

M.R. MENGDEY, J.

1. By filing the present Application under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the Applicants have prayed for quashing and setting aside the FIR being II CR No. 27 of 2014 registered with Dholka Police Station.

2. Heard learned Advocate Mr. Krunal Shah for learned Advocate Mr. B.A. Surti for the Applicants. He submitted that the present FIR came to be lodged against the present Applicants as they had been named as witnesses in the FIR lodged by one Ambaben Arjunbhai Thakore. In fact the Applicants have not made any phone calls to anybody as alleged in the FIR. The present FIR had been lodged by the Respondent - First Informant only with a view to pressurize them not to depose against him in the FIR lodged by Ambaben. Subsequently, the Respondent and the said Ambaben have settled the matter interse. Thus, there is no point in continuing with the present FIR against the present Applicants. He also submitted that the ingredients for the offence alleged against the present Applicants in the FIR are not made out upon a plain reading of the FIR. He submitted that the present FIR has been lodged only after this Court has ordered to transfer the in

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