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RAJNESH OSWAL
Kusum Sharma – Appellant
Versus
State of Jammu And Kashmir Thr. Principal Secretary (Home) Civil Secretariat, Srinagar/Jammu – Respondent
JUDGEMENT
1. Through the medium of this petition under Section 561-A Cr.PC (now 482 Cr.P.C), the petitioners have sought the quashing of the FIR No. 0134/2019, dated 07.09.2019 registered with Police Station, Nowabad, for commission of offences under Section 376/420 RPC, at the instance of respondent No. 3. The petitioners have also filed an application for grant of bail.
2. The petitioner Nos. 1 & 2 are the mother and father of the petitioner No.3 respectively. It is stated that the respondent No. 3 started following the petitioner No. 3 and developed acquaintance with him. In the year 2016, the respondent No.3 started compelling him to marry her, but the petitioner No. 3 did not agree as she was Muslim and the petitioner No. 3 was a Hindu. In the month of October 2018, the respondent No. 3 told the petitioner No. 3 that if he did not marry her, she would implicate him in false and frivolous cases and would tell everyone that the petitioner No. 3 was her husband. When the petitioner No. 3 refused, she started blackmailing him.
3. The petitioners have sought the quashing of FIR on the ground that if the story projected by the respondent No. 3 is accepted in its entirety that she is a
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