Karnataka HC quashes FIR towards Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan and others

The courtroom termed the grievance “an abuse of the method of regulation” and granted liberty to provoke felony contempt proceedings towards the complainant.

Justice Hemant Chandangoudar, who handed the order on April 16, noticed that the grievance was a “vexatious try and harass the petitioners.”

The FIR was primarily based on a non-public grievance filed by D Sanna Durgappa, a former school member of the Indian Institute of Science , who was terminated in 2014 following an inside inquiry into sexual harassment allegations.

He claimed that in 2014, he was falsely implicated in a honey lure case and subsequently dismissed from service. He additional alleged that he was subjected to casteist abuse and threats.

The courtroom famous that the termination was later transformed into resignation, following a problem earlier than the Excessive Court docket in 2015. As a part of the settlement then, Durgappa had agreed to withdraw all complaints and authorized proceedings towards the establishment and its representatives.

Regardless of this, he proceeded to file two extra FIRs, each of which had been quashed in 2022 and 2023. The current FIR, the courtroom noticed, contained comparable allegations and was an abuse of judicial course of.

Reacting to the judgement, Kris Gopalakrishnan stated in assertion, “I’ve full religion in our courts and the justice system. This judgment reaffirms that misuse of authorized provisions has no place in a good and simply system. I’m grateful that the Hon’ble Excessive Court docket has seen by way of the falsehoods and upheld the reality.”

The courtroom additional held that the allegations didn’t appeal to any offence below the SC/ST Act, mentioning that the matter was primarily civil in nature, however had been wrongly given a felony color.

The courtroom has additionally allowed Gopalakrishnan and different petitioners to method the Advocate Basic for permission to provoke felony contempt proceedings towards Durgappa.

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