In Brief
The appellant lodged an FIR against respondents under Sections 307, 352 and 504 IPC. The police report concluded no case was made out, but the appellant filed a protest petition which the magistrate accepted, issuing summons. The respondents filed a revision petition and subsequently a writ petition challenging the proceedings. The Supreme Court directed that both cases—the complaint from the protest petition and the proceedings from the revision petition—should be tried jointly by the same court to ensure consistency, while clarifying that if the writ petition ultimately succeeds and the summoning order is quashed, the joinder ceases.
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