RAHUL versus STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND ANOTHER

Case summary from SCR

Issue for Consideration Whether the High Court was justified in declining to examine, at the threshold, the effect of the official service certificate establishing the appellant’s absence from the place of occurrence; whether the acquittal of the co-accused appellant’s parents, on an arising from the very same F.I.R., has a material bearing on the continuation of proceedings against the appellant; and whether, on a cumulative reading of the record, the continuation of criminal proceedings against the appellant amounts to an abuse of the process of the court, warranting