Supreme Court dismisses plea against quashing FIR in ex-MP Mohan Delkar's suicide case

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday upheld Bombay High Court's order of 2022, which quashed a criminal case registered against nine persons, including Dadra Nagar Haveli Union Territory Administrator Praful Khoda Patel, for allegedly abetting the suicide of MP Mohan Delkar in 2021.

A bench of Chief Justice of India B R Gavai and Justices K Vinod Chandran and N V Anjaria pronounced the order, dismissing the plea filed by Abhinav Mohan Delkar, son of the deceased.

Delkar, 58, a seven-term MP from Dadra and Nagar Haveli, was found dead in a room at a hotel in Marine Drive in south Mumbai on February 22, 2021.

Based on a suicide note, Patel and eight others were booked by the Mumbai police in March 2021 for allegedly abetting the suicide and criminal intimidation of Delkar.

The FIR was filed on March 9, 2021 by Abhinav Delkar, son of the deceased.

Besides Patel, the other accused in the case were - Sandeep Singh, the then District Collector; Sharad Darade, the then Superintendent of Police; Apurva Sharma, the then Deputy Collector; Manasvi Jain, Sub Divisional Officer; Manoj Patel, Police Inspector (Silvassa); Rohit Yadav (DNH administrative department official); political leader Fattesingh Chauhan and Dilip Patel (Talathi of Silvassa).