JUDGMENT :

AMIT MAHAJAN, J.

1. The present petition is filed under Article 227 of the Constitution of India read with Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (‘CrPC’) challenging the order dated 28.02.2018 (hereafter ‘impugned order dated 28.02.2018’), passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge (‘ASJ’), West District, Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi, in Criminal Appeal No. 58/2017.

2. The petitioner has also challenged the order dated 25.08.2017 (hereafter ‘impugned order dated 25.08.2017’), in Case No.4756/2017, whereby the learned Metropolitan Magistrate (‘MM’), West District, Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi dismissed the petitioner’s application under Section 340 of the CrPC read with Section 195 of the CrPC.

3. The brief facts of the case are that the respondent and the petitioner were married in the year 2012, whereafter, as per the petitioner, the respondent left the matrimonial home in less than two weeks after the marriage. In the year 2013, the respondent had instituted a petition under Section 12 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (‘DV Act’) against the petitioner. The application filed by the respondent under Section 23 of the DV Act for int