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SHAMIM AHMED
Titus – Appellant
Versus
Golda Glory – Respondent
ORDER
This Criminal Revision Case has been filed, to call for the records, relating to the order dated, 12.06.2025, made in Cr.MP.No.663 of 2024, by the Judicial Magistrate, Lalgudi and to set aside the same.
2. The facts of the case, in a nutshell, as set out in the affidavit filed in support of this Criminal Revision Case, led to filing of this Criminal Revision Case and necessary for disposal of the same, are as follows:-
(a) It is alleged by the Revision Petitioner/Husband that though the marriage between him and the 1st Respondent/Wife was solemnized on 19.06.2018, according to Christian Rites and Customs, the marriage between them was not consummated and that the 1st Respondent was having illegal relationship with one Sivastephen and that to his shock and surprise, the 1st Respondent stated that only on compulsion by her parents, she married the Revision Petitioner. It is also stated by the Petitioner that when on 16.08.2018, the Revision Petitioner took the 1st Respondent to hospital for hair fall treatment, he came to know that the 1st Respondent was pregnant and that when the Revision Petitioner questioned her about the same, she stated that the child is not the Revision
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