The Supreme Court on Monday (November 17) set aside the Bombay High Court's Aurangabad Bench order that had partially quashed an FIR by dropping some charges while allowing the dacoity charge to stand, even though all the alleged offences arose from a single transaction forming one continuous incident.

“Once the High Court exercised its inherent jurisdiction to quash the FIR with respect to the offences punishable under Sections 115(2), 351(2), 351(3), and 352 of the BNS [Sections 326, 506 and 504 of the IPC], on the basis of the voluntary affidavit of respondent No.2-complainant, there was no justification whatsoever to sustain the same FIR for the offence punishable under Section 310(2) of the BNS [Section 395 of the IPC]. The factual matrix forming the basis of all the offences is inse

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