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These consolidated criminal petitions were filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) seeking to quash multiple FIRs registered against the primary petitioner Roshan Saldanha and connected accused persons across various police stations in Karnataka, including CEN Crime Police Station Mangaluru, Kankanady Town Police Station, and Chitradurga Town Police Station, for offences alleged under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) relating to cheating, criminal breach of trust, organised crime, and related offences, as well as under the Indian Penal Code.
The petitions arose from multiple complaints filed by different complainants alleging financial fraud and cheating by the petitioners. The petitioners sought quashing of the FIRs on the ground that the registration and continuation of the proceedings amounted to an abuse of the process of law. Several petitions also sought to quash the arrest and remand orders and sought immediate release of the petitioner Roshan Saldanha from judicial custody at Central Prison, Mangaluru.
The High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru, after reserving the matter on 05.02.2026, pronounced its judgment on 27.03.2026, considering the facts and circumstances of all the connected petitions together in a common order.
Catchwords:
quashing of FIR
abuse of process of law
cheating
criminal breach of trust
organised crime
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
BNSS Section 528
CrPC Section 482
financial fraud
remand
judicial custody
multiple FIRs
consolidated petitions
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