1. By filing this petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C., the petitioner Vikash Kumar @ Sonu has invoked the inherent jurisdiction of this Court with a prayer for quashing of FIR No.516/2016 under Sections 376(2)(N)/323/506 IPC registered at PS Timar Pur and the consequential proceedings emanating therefrom including the charge-sheet filed.

2. While praying for quashing of FIR and the criminal proceedings emanating therefrom, the petitioner has pleaded that the physical relationship between him and the complainant was consensual since beginning. They have also got married on 26th May, 2017 at Arya Samaj Mandir, 53, Choti Bazariya Railway Road, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh and the marriage has also been registered. The grounds on which the prayer has been made for quashing of FIR and the criminal proceedings are as under:-

(i) A false and frivolous FIR has been lodged by respondent No.2/complainant against the petitioner which is pending trial before the learned ASJ of Tis Hazari Court. The petitioner and respondent No.2 fell in love in the year 2005 and since then they were in contact with each other through mobile, e-mail, letters etc.

(ii) The petitioner got a job in Merchant Navy