The High Court of Karnataka has directed the magistrate court to pass a fresh order on a request by the Bengaluru police to investigate the complaint of threat to life by Swapna Suresh, an accused in the Kerala gold smuggling case, against Vijesh Pillai.
The High Court found that the magistrate erred in permitting the police to investigate the non-cognisable offence under Section 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) without recording a prima facie reason for granting permission to register a First Information Report (FIR) and investigate the complaint.
Justice M. Nagaprasanna passed the order while quashing the permission granted by the magistrate and the FIR registered by the K.R. Puram police, based on the magistrate’s permission to investigate the complaint by Swapna Suresh in March 2023.
