Premlata Satish Sharma vs State of Maharashtra

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2024 Supreme(Bom) 111

ANUJA PRABHUDESSAI, N. R. BORKAR
Premlata Satish Sharma – Appellant
Versus
State of Maharashtra – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Applicants : Mr. Aslam Khan i/b. Hemakshi Gandhi.
For the Respondents: Ms. Rutuja Ambekar, APP, Mr. Akshay Dunde.

JUDGMENT :

Anuja Prabhudessai, J.

With consent, heard finally at the stage of admission.

2. By this Application filed under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the Applicants seek to quash the FIR No. I-106/2023 registered at Vashi Police Station, Navi Mumbai and Charge Sheet No.I-152/2023 in R.C.C.No.1273/2023 pending on the file of learned Metropolitan Magistrate, Vashi, Belapur, Navi Mumbai for offences punishable under sections 323, 406, 498-A, 504 r/w. 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. The aforesaid crime was registered pursuant to the FIR lodged by Respondent No.2. The Applicant No.1 is the mother-in-law and Applicant Nos.2 and 3 are the married sisters-in-law of Respondent No.2. The facts narrated in the FIR reveal that the marriage of Respondent No.2 and Nitin Sharma, the son of the Applicant No.1, was solemnized on 08/08/2022. This was their second marriage and each of them has a child from the previous marriage. The Respondent No.2 claims that at the time of wedding ceremony, her husband and his family members demanded several valuable gold items and cash as ‘shagun’ (good luck). When they visited Dehradhun after their marriage, instead of staying in her matrimonial hom

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