JUDGMENT :

CHANDRA SHEKHAR JHA, J.

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP appearing for State duly assisted by learned counsel for the O.P. No.2.

2. The present application has been filed by the petitioners for quashing the First Information Report (in short ‘F.I.R.’) of Mahila P.S. Case No.4 of 2024 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 3 23 , 379, 494, 498-A, 504, 406 read with 34 of INDIAN PENAL CODE (in short ‘I.P.C.’) as well as Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (in short ‘D.P. Act’).

3. The prosecution case, in brief, as per informant, namely, Rima Kumari @ Rima Devi is that the marriage of informant/O.P. No.2 was solemnized on 23.01.2022 with petitioner No.1. The parents of the informant has given Rs. 14 lakhs in cash, fridge, washing machine, cooler, sofa etc. worth of Rs.2 lakhs and jewellery worth of Rs. 5 lakhs by way of gift and Rs. 1 lakh was also given to the petitioner for chain (sikdi). She further alleged that a demand for four wheeler was also made at the time of vidai by the petitioners. Thereafter, the informant visited her matrimonial house, where everything was fine for few days but, after three days, father of pet