NAVANITI PRASAD SINGH
Rubi Khatoon – Appellant
Versus
State Of Bihar – Respondent
Navaniti Prasad Singh, J.
1. Heard.
2. Learned Counsel for the petitioner states that the learned Sessions Judge erred in exercising jurisdiction to set aside the order taking cognizance in respect of her in-laws. On her behalf, it is submitted that in course of investigation itself, the petitioner being the informant (wife) had filed a protest petition before the Court alleging that the Investigation Officer had been won over. After investigation and supervision, a chargesheet was filed sending up only the husband for trial of an offence under Secs. 498A and 323 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 . The learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, apparently perusing the case diary and in specific referring to four paragraph thereof, disagreed with the chargesheet and took cognizance against the husband of the petitioner and the in-laws who had not been sent up for trial. The learned Magistrate did not reject the chargesheet or the investigation and did not choose to proceed on basis of the pretest petition. The petitioner submits that there was ample material in the protest petition which had been filed and, as such, having taken cognizance against all, the Magistrate committed no illegalit
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