India: SC discharges United Bank officers.

CHENNAI, Nov. 29. THE Supreme Court has discharged senior officers of United Bank of India from criminal cases instituted by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the First Class Judicial Magistrate's Court, Patna, as the proceedings were an abuse of process of court.

A Division Bench consisting of Mr Justice D.P. Mohapatra and Mr Justice R.P. Sethi, while allowing the appeals from the officers observed that on perusal of the FIR, the final report under Section 173 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and all other documents accompanying it, they were satisfied that no case was made out against any of the appellants and the pendency of the proceedings against them before the Magistrate was an abuse of process of court. …