Gujarat High Court quashes FIR against a Surat advocate, calling it a counter-blast by police

19 October 2026

The Gujarat High Court has quashed an FIR registered against a Surat advocate, saying it was a classic counter-blast by police after the advocate, who had been beaten and seriously injured by policemen, filed a complaint of attempted murder against them.
The court said the FIR against Mehul Boghara, an advocate and social activist, amounted to an abuse of police authority and was an attempt to create leverage against him.
Justice P.M. Raval held that the police case under the provisions of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 was not supported by the essential ingredients of the offences.
The court held that continuing the proceedings would be an abuse of the process of law.