Recently, the Supreme Court has held that merely because a person who may have committed the offences but was not arrayed as accused and was not charge-sheeted cannot be a ground to quash the criminal proceedings against the accused who is chargesheeted after a thorough investigation. A bench of Justices M.R. Shah and B.V. Nagarathna
Can Criminal Proceedings be Quashed If Co-accused is not Chargesheetd? Answers Supreme Court
