How to dismiss a criminal case when the defendant has died

Dear Mr. satheesh,

You have to contact police and handover the death certificate for withdrawl of the case. 

Regards,

Can I take liberty to suppose that it's Accused who died?

If so, the matter closes.

Originally posted by : Satheesh Kumar
	How to dismiss a criminal case when the defendant has died naturally.

1.  IF you are the legal heir /representative of deceased defendant, THEN thru a lawyer, you can move application before Court with original death certificate and request to close the matter. The Court will take objections from the Complainant /Prosecution and decide and close the matter, IF there no other accused's in the case.

Note: Even IF you do not do the above, no legal action whatsoever is possible, on the legal heir /representative of deceased defendant

2. Criminal Cases, being of a vicarious nature are NOT transferrable to ANYBODY else, under any circumstances, hence no liability, whatsoever, would arise on anybody.

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