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2025 DAILYLAW 2409 (UTT)

REKHA CHAUHAN v. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND

WPCRL/94/2025 · 2025-02-17

Pankaj Purohit

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SL. No Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS WPCRL No.94 of 2025 Hon’ble Pankaj Purohit, J. Mr. Vikas Singh Yadav, learned counsel for the petitioners. 2. Mr. B.C. Joshi, learned AGA along with Ms. Sweeta Badola and Mr. Vipul Panuli, learned Brief Holders for the State. 3. By means of the present writ petition, the petitioners have challenged the FIR No.14.08.2024 being FIR No.0298 of 2024 under Sections 498-A and 504 IPC, Police Station Raipur, District Dehradun. 4. It is contended by learned counsel for the petitioners that the informant/ respondent no.3 is the wife of one Saurabh Chauhan, who expired on 31.03.2024 and the petitioners are mother-in-law and brother-in-law of respondent no.3 respectively. 5. The allegations in the First Information Report are that after death of the husband of respondent no.3, she was misbehaved and thrown out of the matrimonial house and further both the petitioners got issued 2 the death certificate giving wrong information wherein even the name of the wife is not mentioned. 6. Having gone through the averments made in the First Information Report, this Court is of the view that the prima facie offence is made out and it is not the case where FIR can be quashed. 7. Accordingly, this Court is declined to interfere in the aforesaid FIR under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. Thus, the writ petition is dismissed in limine. (Pankaj Purohit, J.) 17.02.2025 BS