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VINAY JOSHI, VALMIKI SA MENEZES
Abdul Salim Ahmad Abdul Jabbar – Appellant
Versus
State of Maharashtra – Respondent
JUDGMENT/ORDER
VINAY JOSHI, J. - Admit. By consent of the learned Counsel for the parties, Criminal Application is taken up for final disposal.
2. Applicants are seeking to quash the first information report bearing Crime No.247/2022 registered with Chandur Railway Police Station, District Amravati [Gramin], for the offence punishable under Ss. 403, 405, 406, 323, 506, 420, 498-A read with Sec. 34 of the Indian Penal Code, Ss. 4 and 7 of the Muslim Women [Protection of Rights on Marriage] Act, 2019 and Ss. 4 and 7 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 along with Final Report No.63/2022.
3. The quashing is sought on account of inadequate, vague and general allegations. Particularly, it is tried to impress that applicants, who are relatives of wife of brother-in-law of husband, cannot be termed as 'relatives' of informants husband, and therefore, prosecution is untenable. Moreover it is submitted that in order to pressurize the husband and other relatives, they have been falsely implicated, though they never resided in the shared household. The other side has resisted the application by contending that there are specific allegations against both applicants, who have actively participated i
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