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2026 DAILYLAW 302 (RAJ)

KIRTI H MEHTA, SON OF HARSHAD RAI MEHTA, v. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

CRLMP/5256/2025 · 2026-03-19

Anil Kumar Upman

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[2026:RJ-JP:11917] HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN BENCH AT JAIPUR S.B. Criminal Miscellaneous (Petition) No. 5256/2025 Kirti H Mehta, Son Of Harshad Rai Mehta, Aged About 41 Years, Resident Of 91/1A, Aswariya Garden, Flat No. 3A, Police Station Bhawanipur, District Kolkata, West Bengal. ----Petitioner Versus 1. State Of Rajasthan, Through PP 2. Smt. Richa Mehta, Wife Of Of The Kirti H Mehta, Aged About 39 Years, Resident Of 91/1A, Aswariya Garden, Flat No. 3A, Police Station Bhawanipur, District Kolkata, West Bengal. ----Respondents For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Madhusudan Purohit For Respondent(s) For Complainant(s) : : Mr. M.S. Shekhawat, PP Mr. Abhi Goyal HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR UPMAN Order 19/03/2026 1. Interlocutory Application Nos.01/2025 & 01/2026 for early listing of the petition stand disposed of. 2. Parties are present in person and they have duly been identified by their respective counsel. 3. By way of this criminal misc. petition under Section 528 of BNSS, the accused-petitioner has approached this Court with a prayer to quash the FIR No.227/2025 registered at Police Station Jawahar Circle, District Jaipur City (East) for offences punishable under Sections 115(2) & 126(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, (in short ‘BNS’) 2023 on the basis of compromise. 4. Leaned counsel for the petitioner submits that it is a case of matrimonial dispute wherein parties have resolved their dispute [2026:RJ-JP:11917] (2 of 2) [CRLMP-5256/2025] amicably. It is submitted that the complainant has voluntarily agreed to end the dispute which makes further proceedings in the aforesaid FIR fruitless. 5. Learned counsel for the complainant does not dispute the factum of amicable settlement between the parties. It is submitted that complainant of this case does not want to pursue the impugned FIR and has no objection if the impugned FIR is quashed. 6. In view of the aforesaid and considering the submissions advanced on behalf of the respective parties, the material made available for perusal, especially considering the fact that it is a matrimonial dispute and parties have settled their dispute amicably and also finding that the present case is wholly covered by the principle of law laid down by Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Gian Singh versus State of Punjab & Anr. reported in 2012 Cr.L.J. (SC) 4934 and in the case of State of Haryana & Ors. versus Choudhary Bhajan Lal & Ors. reported in AIR 1992 SC 604, and as such, the aforesaid FIR is liable to be quashed in view of the fact that parties have resolved their dispute amicably. 7. Consequently, this Criminal Misc. Petition is allowed and the FIR No.227/2025 registered at Police Station Jawahar Circle, District Jaipur City (East) is quashed and set aside. Consequence to follow. (ANIL KUMAR UPMAN),J CHARU SONI/153