New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- The Supreme Court on Friday came down heavily on Rajasthan police for acting like "James Bond" and adopting a "shoot first, ask questions later" approach, as it quashed an extortion and fraud case.

A bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta described the FIR as "as bogus an FIR as it can get" and said it conveyed a disturbing message that "a common man has no remedy to lodge an FIR while there are privileged people who can register FIRs at the drop of a hat."

The case stems from an FIR registered in September last year at Ashok Nagar police station in Jaipur on a complaint by Zee Media Corporation Limited through its representative Sanju Raju. The complaint alleged that the former regional head of Zee Rajast...