Court No. - 4
Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 31248 of 2018 Petitioner :- Chanchal @ Lav And Another Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Pawan Kumar Shukla Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.
Hon'ble Bala Krishna Narayana,J. Hon'ble Krishna Pratap Singh,J.
Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.G.A. for the State.
This writ petition has been filed by the petitioners with a prayer to quash the impugned F.I.R. registered as Case Crime no. 1046 of 2018, under Sections 498-A, 376-D and 3/4 of D.P. Act, P.S. Majhola, district- Moradabad.
Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the impugned first information report has been lodged by the respondent no.4 containing absolutely false and concocted allegations against the petitioners with the ulterior intention of harassing them. It is next submitted that in respect of the same incident which had taken place on 1.11.2016, two First Information Reports were lodged, one by the wife of petitioner no.1 u/s 498-A, 323, 506 IPC and 3/4 D.P. Act in which no allegation of gang rape was made and now the impugned F.I.R. which is the second F.I.R. and which has been lodged by respondent no.4 who is mother-in-law of petitioner no.1, containing absolutely false and concocted allegations of commission of offence u/s 376-D which was conspicuous by its absence by the earlier F.I.R. He further submitted that apart from the bald allegations made in the impugned F.I.R. no evidence is forthcoming even prima facie indicating at the complicity of the petitioners in the commission of the alleged crime and hence the impugned F.I.R. is liable to be quashed.
Per contra, learned A.G.A. submitted that the impugned F.I.R. is not liable to be quashed on the basis of the submissions advanced by learned counsel for the petitioners.
From the perusal of the impugned F.I.R., it appears that on the basis of the allegations made therein prima-facie cognizable offence is made out. There is no scope of interfering in the F.I.R, therefore, the prayer for quashing the impugned F.I.R. is refused.
However, considering the submissions made by learned counsel for the petitioners and the nature of the allegations made in the F.I.R., it is directed that till the submission of police report under Section 173(2) Cr.P.C., the petitioners shall not be arrested in the aforesaid case subject to their extending full cooperation during investigation.
With the aforesaid direction, this writ petition is finally disposed of.
Order Date :- 31.10.2018 Shalini