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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.5060 OF 2024 [ARISING FROM SLP(CRL.)NO.4288 OF 2024]
KIRAN KUMAR & ANR. APPELLANT(S)
VERSUS
STATE OF RAJASTHAN & ANR. RESPONDENT(S)
WITH
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.5061 OF 2024 [ARISING FROM SLP(CRL.)NO.4834 OF 2024]
O R D E R
1. Leave granted.
2. Despite service of notice on the
complainant (respondent no.2), no one has put in
appearance.
3. Mr. Rahul Kaushik, learned senior counsel
appearing for appellant(s), submits that,
although, the report under Section 173(2) Cr.P.C.
exonerates all the named accused and finds that
the F.I.Rs. were lodged on incorrect and false
facts and the dispute was purely civil in nature,
the High Court, instead of quashing the F.I.Rs.,
has dismissed the Section 482 Cr.P.C. petition(s)
as infructuous. He, therefore, submits that in
view of the fact that it is purely a civil dispute
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and further that the Investigating Agency also
found that it is purely civil dispute, the Court
may quash the F.I.Rs. rather than leaving it open
for the appellant(s) to face unnecessary further
harassment at the instance of the complainant, who
has chosen to file a protest petition, but till
date no order has been passed on the same.
4. Learned counsel appearing for the State
of Rajasthan also submits that it is purely a
civil case and has supported the Police Repo...