Ratan Kumar Das @ Ratan Das vs State of West Bengal

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2025 Supreme(Cal) 515

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA
Ajay Kumar Gupta
Ratan Kumar Das @ Ratan Das – Appellant
Versus
State of West Bengal – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner: Ms. Monika Kalra, Adv., Mr. Shatadru Lahiri, Adv., Mr. Wasim Akram, Adv., Mr. Shantam Gulati, Adv., Mr. Saswata Tripathi, Adv., Ms. Prerana Vishwas, Adv.
For the Opposite Party : Mr. Saibal Mondal, Adv., Ms. Sonali Ghosh, Adv., Mr. Sarthak Mondal, Adv., Mr. Imran Ali, Adv., Ms. Debjani Sahu, Adv.

JUDGMENT :

Ajay Kumar Gupta, J.

1. Petitioner Nos. 1 and 3 are the brothers-in-law of the complainant/opposite party no. 2 and petitioner no. 2 is the wife of one Nukul Das, who is the brother-in-law of the complainant/opposite party no. 2. They have filed revisional application under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (in short ‘CrPC’) for seeking quashing of the proceeding being G.R. Case No. 647/2020 arising out of Amdanga Police Station Case No. 160/2020 dated 01.04.2020 under Section 498A of Indian Penal Code, 1860 as well as the Charge Sheet being Charge Sheet No. 346/2020 dated 30.06.2020 under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and all orders passed therein, pending before the Learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Barasat, North 24 Parganas.

2. The factual matrix, giving rise to filing of present Criminal Revisional application, is that a complaint has been lodged by Opposite Party No.2, Tapati Das against her husband and in-laws alleging that she married Joydeb Das according to Hindu Rites and Customs. Since after marriage, she was subjected to torture both mentally and physically by her husband and in-laws. On 31.03.2020, at about 12.00 hrs.