Shri Mahavir Prashad Gupta & Anr. vs State Of National Capital Territory Of ...

The Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of a Criminal Writ Petition seeking to quash an FIR for breach of trust and forgery, emphasizing that jurisdiction under Section 482 of the CrPC must be exercised sparingly and with circumspection, as established in State of Bihar v. Murad Ali Khan (1988) and State of Haryana v. Bhajan Lal (1992). The Court noted that the Petitioners had not pursued available legal remedies after their anticipatory bail was denied, thus lacking justification for invoking Article 226 of the Constitution. The Court concluded that the Petitioners' actions had unnecessarily delayed the inquiry for over two and a half years.