Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court recently denied granting relief to a doctor, who filed a plea seeking to quash the FIR and subsequent proceedings in a case of medical negligence and cheating.

While considering the matter, the Single-Judge bench of Justice Anand Sharma held that the prosecution was valid and the investigating agency was not barred from conducting further probe and filing a charge sheet even after submitting a negative final report under Section 173(8) of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973.

The Court observed that the subsequent prosecution for medical negligence was rightly initiated, as it was supported by expert medical opinion, thereby complying with the Supreme Court’s guidelines in Jacob Mathew v. State of Punjab

The doctor was booked for medical negligence dur

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