- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2026:KHC-D:144 CRL.P No. 104871 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA, AT DHARWAD DATED THIS THE 7TH DAY OF JANUARY, 2026 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE V.SRISHANANDA CRIMINAL PETITION NO. 104871 OF 2025 (482(CR.PC)/528(BNSS)) BETWEEN: RAMESH S/O. IRA NAIK AGE ABOUT 48 YEARS, OCC. PRIVATE WORK R/O. YALWADIKAVOOR, BHATKAL, TQ. BHATKAL DIST. UTTARA KANNADA, …PETITIONER (BY SRI. D.J. NAIK, ADVOCATE) AND: THE STATE OF KARNATAKA THROUGH BHATKAL RURAL POLICE STATION REP. BY ADDL. SPP HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA. …RESPONDENT (BY SMT. KIRTILATA R. PATIL, HCGP) THIS CRIMINAL PETITION IS FILED U/S. 528 OF BNSS 2023, PRAYING TO QUASH THE COMPLAINT AND FIR IN RESPECT OF PETITIONER/ACCUSED NO.4 IN CRIME NO.24/2025 BHATKAL RURAL P.S. FOR THE OFFENCES PUNISHABLE UNDER SECTIONS 4, 5, 7, 12 THE KARNATAKA PREVENTION OF SLAUGHTER AND PRESERVATION OF CATTLE ACT, 2020 AND THE SECTION 192 OF INDIAN MOTOR VEHICLE ACT 1988, THE SECTION 190 OF THE BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA (BNS) 2023 ON THE FILE OF THE ADDL.CIVIL JUDGE AND JMFC COURT BHATKAL, UTTAR KANNADA DISTRICT AND QUASH THE ENTIRE PROCEEDINGS IN RESPECT OF PETITIONER/ACCUSED NO.4 Digitally signed by SAMREEN AYUB DESHNUR Location: High Court of Karnataka, Dharwad Bench - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2026:KHC-D:144 CRL.P No. 104871 of 2025 PENDING ON THE FILE OF THE ADDL.CIVIL JUDGE AND JMFC COURT BHATKAL, UTTAR KANNADA IN CRIME NO.24/2025 OF BHATKAL RURAL P.S. AND QUASH THE FIR NO.24/2025 BHATKAL RURAL P.S. DATED 09.03.2025 AND COMPLAINT IN SO FAR AS PETITIONER/ACCUSED NO.4 IS CONCERNED AND ETC.,. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR ADMISSION, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: ORAL ORDER (PER: THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE V.SRISHANANDA) Learned counsel for the petitioner filed a memo seeking withdrawal of the petition. The memo reads as under: "Since the police has filed the charge sheet hence, above petition has become infructuous. Hence, the petitioner may be permitted to withdraw the above petition and liberty granted.” Placing the memo on record, the petition is dismissed as withdrawn with liberty as prayed for. Sd/- (V.SRISHANANDA) JUDGE SMM / CT-CMU LIST NO.: 2 SL NO.: 92