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Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 7782 of 2018 Petitioner :- Raju Yadav And 2 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Neelabh Srivastava,Arpan Srivastava Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.
Hon'ble Ramesh Sinha,J. Hon'ble Krishna Pratap Singh,J.
Heard Sri Neelabh Srivastava, learned counsel for the petitioners, Sri Jitendra Singh, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the impugned F.I.R. as well as material brought on record.
This petition has been filed with the prayer to quash the F.I.R. dated 16.8.2017, registered as Case Crime No.385 of 2017, u/s 452, 323, 504, 506, 498-A IPC and 3/4 D.P. Act, P.S. George Town, district Allahabad.
Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the marriage between the petitioner no.1 and daughter of respondent no.4 was solemnized in the year 2005. He further submits that it is a case of no injury, the said fact is mentioned in para no.9 of the present petition. The impugned FIR has been lodged by the respondent no.4 roping in the entire family of his daughter's husband containing absolutely false, concocted, vague and sweeping allegations against them that they were demanding dowry from her and her parents and on account of non fulfilment of the alleged demands of dowry she was being tortured and maltreated by them in her matrimonial home. Hence the impugned FIR is liable to be quashed.
Learned A.G.A. opposed the prayer for quashing but could not dispute the aforesaid fact as argued by learned counsel for the petitioners.
Considering the submissions advanced by learned counsel for the parties and nature of the allegations and the law laid down by the Apex Court in the case of Rajesh Sharma vs. The State of U.P. in Crl. Appeal No. 1265 og 2017 decided on 27.7.2017, it is directed that the petitioners shall not be arrested in above mentioned case, till the submission of the police report under section 173(2) Cr.P.C. but he shall co-operate with the investigation of the case.
With the above direction this petition is finally disposed of.
(Krishna Pratap Singh, J.) (Ramesh Sinha, J.) Order Date :- 30.3.2018 Gaurav