India, Oct. 4 -- A sessions court here has set aside the summons issued by a magistrate against former India cricketer Robin Uthapa in a 2019 cheque bounce case, noting the trial court didn't conduct an enquiry mandatory under the Criminal Procedure
Code (CrPC) before passing its order. Additional session judge Kunal Dhanaji Jadhav, in a ruling last month, remanded the matter back to the trial court with a direction to conduct an inquiry under section 202 of the CrPC.
An enquiry under section 202 is a preliminary investigation by a magistrate to determine if there are sufficient grounds to issue a process (summons) against an accused in a private complaint case, especially when he or she resides outside the court's jurisdiction. Uthapa ha...