Farhin Iqbal, S/o Md. Ali vs State Of Assam

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2025 Supreme(Gau) 776

IN THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH)
PARTHIVJYOTI SAIKIA
Farhin Iqbal, S/o Md. Ali – Appellant
Versus
State Of Assam – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant :Mr. A.M. Bora, Senior Advocate, Mr. R.J. Das, Advocate.
For the Respondent:Mr. B. Sarma, Addl. P.P., Assam, Mr. A. Phukan, Advocate.

JUDGMENT :

PARTHIVJYOTI SAIKIA, J.

Heard Mr. A.M. Bora, the learned senior counsel assisted by Mr. R.J. Das, the counsel appearing for the petitioner. Also heard Mr. B. Sarma, the learned Addl. Public Prosecutor, Assam (Respondent No.1) as well as Mr. A. Phukan, the learned counsel representing the Respondent No.2.

2. This is an application under Section 482 of the CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE (CrPC) praying for quashing the criminal proceedings of C.R. No.4822 of 2022 pending in the court of the learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Kamrup(M), Guwahati.

3. Late Jatin Hazarika was admitted at Nemcare Hospital at Guwahati. The petitioner Dr. Farhin Iqbal was working in that hospital as a Cardiologist. Dr. Farhin Iqbal had conducted ECHO-Cardiogram upon late Jatin Hazarika and gave some reports. Thereafter, late Jatin Hazarika was shifted to a hospital outside Assam where he breathed his last.

4. After the demise of late Jatin Hazarika, the Respondent No.2 being his daughter, had lost all those ECHO-Cardiogram reports. Therefore, she approached the petitioner for providing her duplicate copies. Accordingly, duplicate copies of the ECHO-Cardiogram reports were given to the Respondent No.2