Trial courts must weigh civil disputes before proceeding with criminal prosecution: Karnataka HC

The High Court of Karnataka has said that trial courts cannot ignore the pendency of civil proceedings while assessing whether criminal prosecution is being employed as a weapon of harassment, and are duty-bound to scrutinise, even at the stage of framing of charges, whether the evidence genuinely discloses a strong suspicion and a reasonable prospect of conviction.

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