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SHARAD KUMAR SHARMA
Vikas Chaturvedi – Appellant
Versus
State of Uttarakhand – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
SHARAD KUMAR SHARMA, J.
1. The grievances of the applicants to the present C482 Application are as against the summoning order dated 17.09.2022, which has been issued in a Complaint Case No. 1214 of 2020, Sujata vs. Vikas Chaturvedi and Others, wherein they have been summoned to be tried for the offences under Sections 498A, 323 of IPC and Section 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act.
2. Precisely, it is contended by the learned counsel for the applicants that respondent No. 2, herein, had initially filed a complaint on 11.06.2019 before the Senior Superintendent of Police, with regard to certain set of allegations leveled against the present applicants, and thereafter, the respondent had lodged a complaint under Section 156(3) of CrPC, by way of Criminal Complaint Case No. 1214 of 2020, Sujata vs. Vikas Chaturvedi and Others, pertaining to the allegations of atrocities; which stood instituted which were being exercised by the present applicants before the Court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rudrapur, District Udham Singh Nagar.
3. While putting a challenge to the order of summoning dated 17.09.2022, as it has been passed by the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrat
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