JUDGMENT :

(Sandeep Sharma, J.)

1. By way of instant petition filed under S.482 CrPC, prayer has been made on behalf of petitioner for quashing of FIR No. 20, dated 20.5.2020 registered at Police Station Nankhari, District Shimla, Himachal Pradesh as well as consequent proceedings pending adjudication in the competent court of law i.e. case No.12 of 2021, titled State v. Arun Kumar.

2. Precisely, the facts of the case, as emerge from the record, are that FIR sought to be quashed in the instant proceedings came to be lodged at the behest of respondent No.4-Budhi Singh (hereinafter, ‘complainant’), who alleged that marriage of his daughter Neha was solemnized three years back with one Arun Kumar son of Kesar Singh, resident of Village and Post Office Kharahan, Tehsil Nakhari Shimla as per Hindu rites and customs. He alleged that two years back, his daughter Neha (deceased) had come back to her matrimonial house from Kharahan, after being mentally and physically harassed by her in-laws. Above named complainant alleged that his daughter had disclosed two years back that her mother-in-law and her sister-in-law, namely Shakuntla and Poonam harassed her. He further alleged that after two