JUDGMENT

1. This Criminal Misc. Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. has been preferred claiming the following reliefs:-

"It is, therefore, most respectfully prayed that this Criminal Misc. Petition may kindly be allowed and the order dated 06.04.2017 passed by the Learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sri Ganganagar, taking cognizance of the offences as also the order dated 31.03.2022 passed by the Learned Additional Sessions Judge No. 1, Sri Ganganagar, dismissing the Revision Petition preferred by the petitioner and affirming the order dated 06.04.2017 passed by the Learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sri Ganganagar, be quashed and set aside Any other appropriate order or direction which this Hon’ble Court deems just and proper may kindly be granted to the petitioners."

2. As the pleaded facts and the record would reveal, a complaint was filed by the complainant-respondent no.2-Sumer Kanwar D/o Karan Singh, stating therein that she wed one Pooran Singh on 11.05.2005, as per Hindu rites and rituals at Sri Ganganagar. And that, on 24.05.2013, Pooran Singh wed Suman Kanwar D/o Umaid Singh despite his first marriage subsisting with the complainant-respondent no. 2.

2.1 On 27.09.2013, the complainant-respondent no.2-Mst. Sumer Kanwar, filed an F.I.R. bearing No. 288/2013, at Police Station-Mahila Thana, Sri Ganganagar against eight accused persons namely; Puran Singh, Sajna Kanwar, Sujan Kanwar, Mithu Kanwar, Kanta Kanwar, Manfool Singh, Prabhu Singh and Suman Kanwar for the offences under Sections 420 , 406, 498A and 494 IPC; upon investigation, a charge-sheet came to be filed on 03.02.2014, against three of the aforementioned eight accused persons namely; Pooran Singh, Narpat Singh and Sajan Kanwar for the offences under Sections 419 , 420, 406, 498-A, 494, 171 and 120B IPC.

2.2 And that on 23.09.2016, the complainant-respondent no. 2 filed a private complaint before the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sri Ganganagar; whereupon the learned Court below proceeded to take cognizance against the present petitioners, Petitioner no. 1-Shrawan Singh (brother of the second wife-Suman Kanwar D/o Umaid Singh) and petitioner no. 2-Bhanwri Kanwar (mother of the second wife), and eleven other persons for the offences under Sections 494 read with Sections 109 and 114 IPC, vide the impugned order dated 06.04.2017.

2.3 That a revision petition was preferred against the aforesaid order before the learned Additional Sessions Judge No. 1, Sri Ganganagar which came to be dismissed vide the impugned order dated 31.03.2022.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that no specific role has been attributed to the present petitioners in the alleged crime in question, and that therefore, the learned Courts below have erred in passing the impugned orders.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners further submits that the impugned F.I.R. was lodged after a delay of about 4 months and that in the said F.I.R., the present petitioners-Shrawan Singh and Bhanwri Singh were not named. That even in the charge-sheet, that came to be filed