Allahabad High Court
MUSTKINversusSTATE OF U.P. AND 2 OTHERS
- Decided
Holding
The writ petition was dismissed as having become infructuous after the charge-sheet was filed.
Summary
The petitioner, Mustkin, filed a criminal miscellaneous writ petition before the Allahabad High Court. The petition sought relief pending the filing of a charge-sheet in the underlying criminal case. The petitioner’s counsel argued that the filing of the charge-sheet rendered the writ petition infructuous. The Court accepted this submission and held that the petition could no longer be entertained. Consequently, the writ petition was dismissed as infructuous. No substantive merits of the underlying criminal case were addressed.
Issues considered
- Whether a criminal miscellaneous writ petition becomes infructuous upon the filing of a charge-sheet in the underlying case
Subjects
- writ petition
- criminal procedure
- charge-sheet
- infructuous
- dismissal
Judgment
HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 29576 of 2025
Mustkin
.....Petitioner(s)
Versus
State Of U.P. And 2 Others
.....Respondent(s)
Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Vipul Shukla, Yaheya
Counsel for Respondent(s) : Shaheen Baano, Arvind Kumar Srivastava,
G.A.
Court No. - 29
HON'BLE SIDDHARTHA VARMA, J.
HON'BLE KUNAL RAVI SINGH, J.
1. Sri Ajay Kaushik holding brief of Sri Vipul Shukla, learned counsel for the
petitioner, submits that the writ petition has become infructuous in view of the filing
of the charge-sheet in the case.
2. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed as having become infructuous.
September 28, 2026
vijay krishna
(Kunal Ravi Singh,J.) (Siddhartha Varma,J.)
Digitally signed by :-
VIJAY KRISHNA JAISWAL
High Court of Judicature at Allahabad
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