High Court of Karnataka Quashes FIR in Family Inheritance Dispute Under Section 482 CrPC/Section 528 BNSS — Pending Civil Suit Renders Criminal Proceedings an Abuse of Process. The court held that when a civil suit for partition is already pending on the same set of facts, registration of a criminal complaint for forgery and fraud amounts to an abuse of the legal process and must be quashed, particularly where the dispute is essentially civil and the complainant is a family member seeking to harass the accused....
The dispute concerned the estate of one Vasantha Rangan, who died intestate in 2015, leaving behind his widow (petitioner No.1), elder daughter (petitioner No.2), and younger daughter (respondent No.2...
