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IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU
M.NAGAPRASANNA
Manjunath V., S/o. S. Venkatesh – Appellant
Versus
State of Karnataka, North-East Women Police Station, Represented By Special Public Prosecutor – Respondent
ORDER :
(M. NAGAPRASANNA, J.)
The petitioners are before this Court calling in question registration of a crime in Crime No.58 of 2024 registered on 02-12-2024 for offences punishable under Sections 115 (2), 351(3), 352 and 85 of BNS and Sections 3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961.
2. Facts, in brief, adumbrated are as follows: -
Before embarking upon narration of facts, I deem it appropriate to notice the relationship between the protagonists in the lis. The 2nd respondent is the complainant. The 1st petitioner is the husband of the 2nd respondent. 2nd and 3rd petitioners are the mother-in-law and father-in-law respectively of the complainant. The 1st petitioner and the complainant get introduced to each other in the year 2022 through mutual friends. On 23-08-2023 the 1st petitioner and the complainant get married. After one year of marriage, it appears, the relationship between the 1st petitioner and the complainant flounders. On various allegations and grievances of floundering of the relationship, proceedings before various fora are instituted by the 1st petitioner/husband against the 2nd respondent/wife or the wife against the husband. The proceedings are for annulment of marr
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