Sathuri Gopal Rao vs The State Of Jharkhand on 24 September, 2024
8. Learned Additional Public Prosecutor and the learned counsel for
the opposite party no.2 on the other hand opposes the prayer as
made by the petitioners in the criminal miscellaneous petitions and
submits that this is not a case of civil dispute rather the petitioners
have committed extortion, caused hurt, criminally intimidated the
complainant, intentionally insulted him, in criminal conspiracy with
each other and besides that having committed offence of cheating; so
the ratio of Usha Chakraborty & Anr. vs. State of West Bengal &
Anr. (supra) is not applicable to the facts of the case, more so because
unlike the case of Usha Chakraborty & Anr. vs. State of West
Bengal & Anr. (supra) where only FIR was registered, but in this
case the allegation against the petitioners was found to be true after
investigation of the case by the police and charge sheet has been
submitted, cognizance has been taken and even charge has been
framed by the learned Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Jamshedpur
upon considering the materials available in the record including the
case diary by the police. So far as the non-compliance of Section 154
(3) Cr.P.C. is concerned, it is submitted that keeping in view the fact
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of the case where the allegation made against the petitioners was
considered to be true in the investigation by the police, at this
belated stage the non-compliance of Section 154 (3) Cr.P.C. cannot be
taken into consideration for quashing the entire criminal proceeding.
Hence, it is submitted that these criminal miscellaneous petitions
being without any merit be dismissed.