Monday, 14 April 2025

Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 482 — Quashing of FIR — Insufficient Allegations

 UNION TERRITORY OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR

Vs.

BRIJ BHUSHAN

( Before : Sudhanshu Dhulia and K. Vinod Chandran, JJ. )

Special Leave Petition (Criminal) No.12026 of 2024

Decided on : 07-04-2025

Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 482 — Quashing of FIR — Insufficient Allegations — An FIR registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act and S. 120-B IPC concerning a decades-old land transaction was rightly quashed under S. 482 Cr.P.C. against the Managing Director of the beneficiary cooperative society where the allegations amounted merely to a “bland allegation of connivance” with state officials, without specifying his role in the alleged criminal conspiracy or corruption, and where no personal benefit was alleged to have accrued to him.