After finding merit in the submissions made by the petitioners, the Bombay High Court Thursday quashed the FIR registered against Dadra and Nagar Haveli (DNH) Union Territory Administrator Praful Khoda Patel and eight others over the death of seven-time Dadra Nagar Haveli MP Mohan S Delkar on February 22 last year.
Quashing the FIR registered against Patel and eight others, a HCdivision bench of Justices Shrikant D Kulkarni and Prasanna B Varale noted: “Considering all these aspects, we find merit in the submissions of learned Counsel appearing for the Petitioners and in our opinion, these are the fit cases so as to exercise the powers of this Court under Section 482 of CrPC to prevent an abuse of process of law”. The HC bench quashed the FIR registered by the Marine Drive Police at the behest of Abhinav Delkar, son of the decease MP Mohan Delkar, for the offences punishable under Sections 306, 506, 389, 120-B of Indian Penal Code, 1860 read with Sections 3 (1)(N), 3(1)(P), 3(2)(ii), 3(2)(Va) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.