REPORTABLE 2024 INSC 772 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. OF 2024 (Arising out of SLP (Criminal) No.6583 of 2024) SOMJEET MALLICK … APPELLANT(S) VERSUS STATE OF JHARKHAND & OTHERS … RESPONDENT(S) J U D G M E N T MANOJ MISRA, J. 1. Leave Granted. 2. This appeal impugns judgment and order of the High Court1dated 01.02.2024 passed in Cr. M.P. No.3796 of 2018 whereby, exercising powers under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 19732, the High Court quashed the order dated 20.02.2020, by which cognizance was taken, and all 1 High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi 2 CrPC Page 1 of 11further proceedings in connection with Case No.78 of 2016, registered at P.S. Sakchi, corresponding to G.R. No.1627 of 2016, pending in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate3, Jamshedpur. Factual Matrix 3. The appellant (original complainant) filed an application, under Section 156(3) CrPC, alleging that the second and third respondents (original accused)