CRL.M.C./7096/2024 of NAVEEN VATS AND ORS Vs THE STATE NCT OF DELHI AND ANR

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI

+CRL.M.C. 7096/2024

NAVEEN VATS AND ORS

.....Petitioners

Through:Ms. Ayushi Sinhgal, Adv.

versus

THE STATE NCT OF DELHI AND ANR

.....RespondentsThrough:Ms. Kiran Bairwa, APP for the Statewith SI Kirandeep Kour PS KM Pur

CORAM:

HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE NEENA BANSAL KRISHNA

O R R%09.09.2024

CRL.M.A. 27068/2024 (Exemption)

1.Exemption allowed, subject to all jus exceptions.

2.The application stands disposed of.

CRL.M.C. 7096/2024

3.The Petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure,1973 (hereinafter referred to as ‘Cr.P.C., 1973’) has been filed on behalf ofthe petitioner, seeking quashing of the FIR No. 529/2021 for the offencesunder Section 498A/406/509/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereinafterreferred to as ‘IPC, 1860’) registered at Police Station Kotla Mubarak Pur,New Delhi.

4.Issue notice.

5.Learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing on advance notice,

accepts notice on behalf of the State.

6.Brief facts of the case are that the marriage was solemnized betweenpetitioner No. 1/husband and respondent No. 2/wife on 01.02.2005according to the Hindu rites and ceremonies and male child was born outof the said wedlock.

7.It is stated that the petitioner No. 1 and the respondent No. 2 haveamicably settled all the disputes and differences between them and agreed toreside happily together and since then they have been living together.

8.The parties are present before this Court in-person today, and havebeen identified by their counsel and Investigating Officer concerned.

9.The present petition has been signed by the petitioner and is supportedby his affidavit. The parties are living together happily and without anypressure and coercion.

10.Today, the respondent No. 2/wife, who is present in the Court, statesthat she has no objection if the FIR is quashed.

11.In view of the above facts that the parties have amicably resolvedtheir differences out of their own free will and without any coercion and alsothe fact that the present matter is family matter, no useful purpose will beserved in continuing with the proceedings, rather the same would createfurther acrimony between them. Hence, it would be in the interest of justiceto quash the abovementioned FIR and the proceedings pursuant thereto.

12.Moreover, there is no legal impediment in quashing the FIR inquestion.

13.Accordingly, FIR No. 529/2021 for the offences under Section498A/406/509/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereinafter referred to as‘IPC, 1860’) registered at Police Station Kotla Mubarak Pur, New Delhi.

and all consequential proceedings emanating therefrom are quashed.

14.The Petition stands disposed of.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024/PT

NEENA BANSAL KRISHNA, J