HC scraps 45-year-old criminal case, Karnataka’s oldest | India News

BENGALURU: Karnataka HC has brought the curtains down on what it said is, perhaps, “the oldest case in the criminal justice system in the state”, by quashing proceedings against a Bengaluru resident in a 45-year-old case.
The man was charged with accompanying two men accused of murdering a person over a land dispute in Udupi in June 1979. The petitioner, Chandra alias Chandrashekar Bhat, said he was working in Bengaluru from 1979 to 2022. Though he was available all the time, no warrant was served upon him in the case.
Justice M Nagaprasanna said, “If acquittal is imminent, permitting trial against accused would be nothing but a waste of judicial time.”