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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. OF 2024 (Arising out of SLP(Crl.) No. 1969 of 2021)
B. SENTHIL RAJ Appellant(s)
VERSUS
STATE, REP. BY INSPECTOR OF POLICE & ANR. Respondent(s)
O R D E R
1. Leave granted.
2. This appeal calls in question the correctness
of the order dated 03.12.2020 passed by the learned
Single Judge of the High Court of Judicature at
Madras in Crl. O.P. No. 4376 of 2914.
3. By the said order, the learned Single Judge
of the High Court dismissed the Criminal Original
Petition and refused to quash the FIR being Crime
No. 415 of 2011 on the file of the Inspector of
Police, Central Crime Branch, Chennai.
4. By the same order, the learned single Judge
of the High Court in paragraph 18 directed that the
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police, with the help of Revenue Officials, shall
demolish the encroachments made in the land in
question.
5. While we are convinced that the impugned
order insofar as it directs demolition of
encroachments, is unsustainable being beyond the
scope of the criminal original petition, we
otherwise, see no ground to interfere with the
findings made in the impugned order.
6. With the above observations, the appeal is
partly allowed. While the order is sustained, the
following portion of the impugned order shall stand
set aside:
“....Further, the police, with...