While quashing the various complaints filed against actress Khushboo -- they " do not support or even draw a prima facie case for any of the statutory offences as
alleged" -- the Supreme Court also addressed the vexatious so dealt with the vexatious procedural loophole in section 177 of the Criminal Procedural Code (CrPC) which allows multiple cases to be filed against a person, even though they have the same subject matter. Earlier, Delhi High Court in Maqbool Fida Husain V/s RajKumar Pandey had ruled: ‘it has become imperative that ... jurisdiction be more circumscribed so that an artist ... is not made to run from pillar to post facing proceedings.’ The Supreme Court in its judgement has gone an extra step: