Supreme Court quashes FIR and proceedings against Elvish Yadav in snake venom case
The Facts
- The Supreme Court quashed the FIR and subsequent criminal proceedings against Elvish Yadav in the snake venom case.
- The case was registered by Uttar Pradesh Police in 2023.
- A bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and N. Kotiswar Singh heard the matter.
- The court said the Wildlife (Protection) Act complaint was not filed by an authorised person, making the proceedings unsustainable.
- The court said the NDPS Act provisions could not be applied because the liquid substance recovered from a co-accused was not a scheduled substance.
- The court noted that no recovery had been made from Yadav himself, and the charge sheet only alleged that he had placed orders through an associate.
- The court said the IPC charges in the FIR were based on an earlier Gurugram FIR, and that case had already ended with a closure report.
Context
Why did the Supreme Court say the case could not continue?
The bench said the Wildlife (Protection) Act complaint was not filed by an authorised person, and it also found the NDPS provisions inapplicable to the substance described in the case Hindustan Times,India Today,ThePrint,NewsBytes.
Did the court decide whether Yadav was guilty or innocent of the allegations?
The reports say the court confined itself to the legal validity of the complaint and FIR, and one account quotes the bench as saying it was not going into other issues raised Asian News Internat…,mid-day,Deccan Chronicle,LatestLY.
What happened to the earlier Gurugram case mentioned by the court?
Multiple reports say the IPC charges in the Uttar Pradesh FIR were linked to an earlier Gurugram FIR, and that the earlier case had already been closed through a closure report News18,India Today,Hindu,Times of India,ThePrint,Telegraph.
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