Overview
- Justice Pankaj Bhatia of the Lucknow Bench quashed criminal proceedings against the RWA’s president, secretary and caretaker tied to a parking dispute at Celebrity Greens.
- The court held that the essential element of extortion was missing because no money was extracted, and it found no material to support criminal intimidation or intentional insult under the BNS.
- The bench said a democratically approved parking policy by a registered RWA could not be treated as extortion.
- The order criticized the investigation as hurried and half‑baked, directed that remarks be placed in the investigating officer’s ACR, and sent the order to the DGP for further consideration.
- The court noted the informant misused his claimed RSS affiliation and observed that the organisation’s name had been maligned in the complaint.