Allahabad High Court
TEERATH SINGHversusSTATE OF U.P. AND 3 OTHERS
- Decided
Holding
The petition is dismissed as infructuous because the charge sheet has been filed.
Summary
Petitioner Teerath Singh filed a criminal miscellaneous writ petition challenging the proceedings against him. The petitioner’s counsel argued that a charge sheet had already been filed, rendering the writ petition moot. The respondents did not contest this submission. The Court examined whether the filing of a charge sheet makes a writ petition infructuous. Finding that the petition no longer had any operative purpose, the Court dismissed it as infructuous. The dismissal effectively closed the petition without addressing any substantive merits.
Issues considered
- Whether a criminal miscellaneous writ petition becomes infructuous upon the filing of a charge sheet
Subjects
- writ petition
- charge sheet
- infructuous
- criminal procedure
Judgment
HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 7109 of 2023
Teerath Singh
.....Petitioner(s)
Versus
State Of U.P. And 3 Others
.....Respondent(s)
Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Pranshu Dwivedi, Ram Prakash
Dwivedi
Counsel for Respondent(s) : G.A., Rahul Mehrotra, Rakesh Kumar
Tiwari
Court No. - 42
HON'BLE SIDDHARTHA VARMA, J.
HON'BLE JAI KRISHNA UPADHYAY, J.
1. Sri Ram Prakash Dwivedi, learned counsel for the petitioner submits
that in this case charge sheet has been filed so the writ petition has
become infructuous and it may be dismissed as infructuous.
2. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous.
(Jai Krishna Upadhyay,J.) (Siddhartha Varma,J.)
May 7, 2026
S.K.S.
Digitally signed by :-
SUNIL KUMAR SINGH
High Court of Judicature at Allahabad
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