Bombay High Court

ARUN MEGHRAJ DAGIAversusUNION OF INDIA

Decided: 17 January 2026
Disposal: Dismissed
Bench: R N LADDHA

Holding

The revision is dismissed as infructuous because the trial court had acquitted the accused and no operative order remains.

Summary

Arun Meghraj Dagia filed a criminal revision application before the Bombay High Court challenging the order of the Special Court (CBI), Mumbai, dated 22 March 2026. The applicant contended that the trial court had acquitted accused No.4 on 22 March 2016, rendering the revision unnecessary. The respondent, Union of India and others, submitted the judgment of acquittal to the court. The High Court examined whether any operative order remained to be challenged. Finding that the acquittal left no surviving matter, the Court held the revision application to be infructuous and dismissed it.

Issues considered

Whether the revision application is maintainable after the acquittal of the accused.

Subjects

revision
acquittal
criminal procedure
High Court
infructuous

Judgment

                          Mamta Kale                                                                       24-revn-262-2005.docx


                            IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
                                 CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

                                       Criminal Revision Application No. 262 of 2005
                      Arun Meghraj Dagia                                                                   … Applicant
                          versus
                      Union of India and Ors.                                                              …Respondents
                                                                        ----

                      None for the Applicant.
                      Ms Yashashree Raut h/f Manisha Jagtap, for Respondent No.1 /
                      CBI.
                      Ms Anagha A Deshmukh, APP, for the Respondent / State.
  MAMTA
  AMAR
  KALE
Digitally signed by
                                                  ----
MAMTA AMAR KALE
Date: 2026.01.17
19:41:58 +0530

                                                         Coram: R.N. Laddha, J.
                                                                                               Date: 17 January 2026
                      P.C.:
                      .       The learned Counsel appearing on behalf of respondent
                      No.1 tenders a copy of the judgment passed by the Special
                      Court (CBI), Mumbai, dated 22 March 2026 and submits that
                      applicant / original accused No.4 has been acquitted by the
                      learned trial Court on 22 March 2016 and nothing survives in
                      this revision application. The said copy of the judgment is taken
                      on record and marked ‘X’ for identification. In view of the
                      above, the present revision application stands dismissed as
                      infructuous.
                                                                                                          (R.N. Laddha, J.)


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