( 1 ) THE petitioner-husband has filed this petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (hereinafter REFERRED TO to as the Code) for quashing of FIR No. 34/93, dated 23 January 1993, got registered at P. S. Paschim Vihar, New Delhi by respondent No. 2 herein-the wife, under Sections 406/498-A Indian Penal Code, primarily on the grounds that: (i) Delhi Police has no jurisdiction to register the case and (ii) even taking the allegations in the complaint on their face value, no case can be made out under the said Sections.

( 2 ) RAJINDER Singh - petitioner and Smt. Satvinder Kaur-complainant, were married at Patiala (Punjab) on 9 October 1990. They lived together in Patiala and a daughter was born on 19 December 1991 out of the wedlock. The marital life had apparently been unhappy, either because of demand for gifts from the petitioner s side, as alleged by the complainant or because of incompatibility and some other reasons, as alleged by the petitioner. Be that as it may, on 19 January 1992 at 3. 40 PM a complaint was lodged by the complainant-wife at P. S. Kotwali, Patiala (DD No. 18) alleging: that after the birth of a female child her in-laws had s