Extracted from the PDF above. The PDF is authoritative.
2025:UHC:148 SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS
WPCRL No. 1618 of 2021 Hon’ble Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.
1. None present for the petitioner.
2. Mr. K.S. Bora, learned Deputy Advocate General for the State of Uttarakhand.
3. Petitioner has sought quashing of F.I.R. No. 0082 of 2021, registered against him for offence punishable under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 & 120-B of I.P.C. in Police Station Haldwani, District Nainital.
4. Learned State Counsel, on instructions, submits that the Investigating Officer has filed charge- sheet against the petitioner before the court concerned on 01.02.2023. Thus, he submits that the writ petition has become infructuous.
5. The said contention, however, cannot be accepted. The impugned F.I.R. is on record as Annexure No. 2 to the writ petition. Perusal of the F.I.R. reveals that ingredients of offences levelled against the petitioner are made out.
6. Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of M/s Neeharika Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. Vs. State of Maharashtra & others, reported in AIR 2021 SC 1918, have laid down parameters for exercise of power under Article 226 of Constitution, in such matters.
2025:UHC:148
7. The allegations are correct or not can only be decided in a trial. Thus, this Court cannot embark upon an enquiry as to whether the allegations against the petitioner are correct or not. Whether the allegations are correct or incorrect, would have to be decided in the trial.
8. In such view of the matter, there is no scope for interference with the impugned FIR while exercising extraordinary power under Article 226 of the Constitution.
9. Accordingly, the writ petition fails and is dismissed.
(Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.)
06.01.2025 Aswal
NITI RAJ SINGH ASWAL Digitally signed by NITI RAJ SINGH ASWAL DN: c=IN, o=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, ou=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, 2.5.4.20=eacc6757ee7881e933ff8934f07477005aa85f9802a3a08b08d 1369512ea30f3, postalCode=263001, st=UTTARAKHAND, serialNumber=44EB54CBF00B7698CB6F10C2CE3D26F5C22DACF4F46 10C1FE58A58531726FBB0, cn=NITI RAJ SINGH ASWAL Date: 2025.01.07 10:15:15 +05'30'
2025:UHC:148