Sunita Gupta, J.

1. This is a petition under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘Cr.P.C.’) for quashing of proceedings in Complaint Case No. 69/1 titled as Yash Mehra v. Arundhati Sapru under Section 200 of Cr.P.C. for offence under Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘IPC’) pending in the Court of learned Metropolitan Magistrate, New Delhi.

2. The brief facts leading to the filing of the present petition are that the respondent herein filed a complaint under Section 200 Cr.P.C. for offence under Section 500 IPC alleging inter alia that accused and complainant got married on 12th July, 2011 according to Hindu rites and customs and several cases are pending between them in different Courts. Prior to the marriage with accused, the accused was married to Ms. Divya Mehra who expired on 11th June, 2000 and after her demise complainant got married to the accused. During subsistence of first marriage of the complainant with Ms. Divya Mehra, both of them adopted a son, namely, Pranav. Earlier divorce case pending between the complainant and accused was being heard by the Court of Sh. T.S. Kashyap, learned Additional District Judge where