ACB FIR Quashed Due to Lack of Sanction and Recycled Allegations

R. Ashoka Vs State of Karnataka & Ors. (Supreme Court of India) No Sanction, Political Vendetta & Recycled Complaints: Supreme Court Quashes ACB FIR in Karnataka Land Allotment Case The Supreme Court has allowed both criminal appeals and quashed FIR in Crime No. 5/2018 registered by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Karnataka, holding that the prosecution against former Karnataka Minister R. Ashoka was vitiated by absence of mandatory sanction, malice, and abuse of process of law. The case arose out of allegations relating to irregular allotment of government land during Ashoka’s ten...