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Issues: Whether proceedings and FIR registered under Section 174A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 could be continued after the petitioner's proclamation proceedings had ceased to survive, the petitioner had appeared before the trial court and been granted bail, and the underlying complaint had been dismissed for want of prosecution.
Analysis: The FIR under Section 174A was registered only because of the petitioner's absence in the complaint proceedings and the declaration as a proclaimed person. Once the petitioner later appeared before the trial court and was granted bail, the default that had led to the proclamation proceedings stood regularised. The underlying complaint had already been dismissed for want of prosecution, and no restoration application had been filed for more than a year. In these circumstances, continuation of the FIR and consequential proceedings would serve no useful purpose and would amount to abuse of process of court.
Conclusion: The FIR under Section 174A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and all consequential proceedings were quashed in favour of the petitioner.
Final Conclusion: The proceedings arising solely from the earlier proclamation default were brought to an end, as their continuation was held unwarranted after regularisation of appearance and dismissal of the main complaint.
Ratio Decidendi: Where proclamation-based criminal proceedings have been regularised by subsequent appearance and bail, and the underlying case has itself been dismissed, continuation of the consequential FIR under Section 174A is an abuse of process and may be quashed.
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