JUDGMENT :

Rakesh Kainthla, J.

The present petition has been filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. for quashing of the F.I.R. No. 27 of 2021 dated 03.12.2021, registered at Women Police Station Kullu, District Kullu, H.P. for the commission of offence punishable under Section 376 of IPC and setting aside the order dated 04.04.2023 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Kullu, in Session Trial No. 14/2022, titled State Vs. Shashank Thakur.

2. It has been asserted that an F.I.R. was lodged against the petitioner by the informant stating that she was in a relationship with the petitioner for 5 years before her marriage. The petitioner impregnated her and administered some medicine to abort her fetus. He threatened to commit suicide by jumping into the river in case the informant refused to take the medicine. Subsequently, the petitioner started ignoring the informant and stopped talking to her. The informant asked the petitioner to marry her but he refused. The matter was also reported to the One Stop Centre and Women Police Station on 20.11.2021. The petitioner solemnized marriage with the informant in Trilogi Temple Pirdi. The informant withdrew the complaints on the asking of t