The court emphasized that both fairness and timely justice must be upheld in criminal trials to prevent abuse of process.

ORDER

This Criminal Revision is directed against the order passed in Crl.M.P.No.

584 of 2024 in C.C.No.183 of 2020, dated 15.03.2024, on the file of the Judicial Magistrate (Fast Track Court), Karaikudi, allowing the petition filed under Section 242 (2) Cr.P.C .

2. On the basis of the complaint lodged by the second respondent, F.I.R., came to be registered in Cr.No.6 of 2001 against the petitioner and three others for the alleged offences under Section 498-A, 406, 494 I.P.C., and Section 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. The respondent police, afer completing the investigation, laid a final report against six persons including the petitioner and the case was taken on file in C.C.No.146 of 2002, on the file of the Court of Judicial Magistrate, Karaikudi. It is evident from the records that the case as against the fourth accused – Vallikannu was ordered to be split up from the main case and the same was taken on file in C.C.No.115 of 2004. It is also not in dispute that the case as against the first accused – Muthukaruppan was also ordered to split up and the same was taken on file in C.C.No.433 of 2010. After the formation of the Fast Track Court, the cases were transferred to the file of the Fast Track Court and the main case was renumbered as C.C.No.183 of 2020.