Vinay Kumar vs State of Bihar - 2025 Supreme(Pat) 1478

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2025 Supreme(Pat) 1478

PURNENDU SINGH
Vinay Kumar – Appellant
Versus
State of Bihar – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner: Mr.Arun Kumar Arun.
For the Opp. Parties : Mrs. Meena Singh, APP.
For O.P. No.2 : M/s Mukesh Kumar Singh, Shiopujan Singh.

Purnendu Singh, J.—Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners, learned APP for the State and learned counsel for the opposite party no.2.

2. The petitioners have preferred the application under Section 528 of BNSS for quashing the order taking cognizance dated 25.07.2019 passed by the learned Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Bihar Sharif in Complaint Case No. 1318C of 2018 by which the learned Magistrate has taken cognizance of offences against the petitioners under Section 498A/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.

3. Prosecution story, in brief, is that the opposite party no. 2, Jyoti Kumari, filed a complaint on 25.10.2018 before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Bihar Sharif alleging, inter alia, that her marriage was solemnized with petitioner no. 1 on 07.05.2017, at which time her father is said to have spent about Rs. 6 lakhs towards cash, ornaments and household articles. It is alleged that at the time of marriage, the father of petitioner no. 1 (now deceased) represented that his son was employed in the Railways and would secure permanent appointment in due course. After marriage, the complainant staye

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