FIR Quashing Petition Not Infructuous After Chargesheet Due to Wider Jurisdiction: SC

Pradnya Pranjal Kulkarni Vs State of Maharashtra & Anr. (Supreme Court of India) The case concerns a challenge to an order of the Bombay High Court which had disposed of a writ petition seeking quashing of an FIR on the ground that the petition had become infructuous after the filing of a chargesheet. The petitioner had invoked jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution as well as Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS), seeking quashing of an FIR registered under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code. During the pendency of the writ petition, the ...