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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

BENCH AT AURANGABAD

CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 4756 OF 2024

1. Mohit Raju Chopra

2. Raju Laxminarayan Chopra

3. Priti Raju Chopra

All R/o.Flat No.03

Mahaveer Darshan Building

Jivdani Complex, V.S.Road, Virar

Tal.Vasai, Dist.Palghar. … APPLICANTS

VERSUS

1. The State of Maharashtra

through in charge of

Srirampur City Police Station

Srirampur, Dist. Ahmednagar

2. Bharat Arjundas Narang

R/o. Zulelal Panth, Tambe Chawl

Ward No. 1 Srirampur,

Dist.Ahemednagar. … RESPONDENTS

…

Advocate for the Applicants : Mr. Ajay Mishra

AGP for Respondent/State : Ms. Jayshri P. Reddy

…

CORAM : R.G. AVACHAT AND

ABASAHEB D. SHINDE, JJ.

DATE : 24.12.2025

JUDGMENT ( ABASAHEB D. SHINDE, J.) :

1. Heard. Rule. Rule is made returnable forthwith. With the

consent of the parties the matter is heard finally at the stage of admission.

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2. By this criminal application filed under Section 528 of the

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, the applicants are seeking

quashment of the FIR No.0469/2024 registered with Shrirampur City

Police Station dated 19.04.2024 for the offences punishable under

Sections 306, 498-A read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code (for

short the IPC) and the consequential charge-sheet filed pursuant to the

same.

3. Facts giving rise to filing of this Criminal Application are as

follows :

i. The Respondent No.2 – informant lodged the FIR with

Shrirampur Police Station alleging that his deceased daughter,

Tanvi got married with the applicant No.1 on 16.02.2021. He

had performed their marriage gracefully by spending

Rs.25,00,000/-, however, the applicants No.1 to 3 were

harassing deceased Tanvi by taunting her that the marriage

performed by the informant was not as per their pleasure and by

not offering proper respect. It is also alleged that the deceased

Tanvi because of said ill-treatment given by the applicants No.1

to 3 was under tremendous mental stress. Once when she

suffered fracture to her right leg, the applicants No.1 to 3 did not

take proper care nor even bothered to meet her. She always

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used to make a grievance with the informant that no meaning

left in her life to survive anymore and she is experiencing

suicidal thoughts or feelings. However, the informant used to

console her everytime.

ii. It is further alleged that from September 2022 to February 2024,

deceased Tanvi started residing separately with her husband

(applicant no.1) at Malad, Mumbai, in rented flat. She was

doing a private job at Vikroli, Mumbai. It is further alleged that

the applicants No .2 and 3 were not allowing the applicant No.1

to stay with her, as a result of which deceased Tanvi was feeling

lonely and she was kept away from the love and affection of

applicant No.1. It is further alleged that the applicants No.2 and

3 visited at her rented flat in the month of February 2024 and

threatened her on account of demand of money from the

informant.

iii. It is further alleged that deceased Tanvi thereafter came to her

parental home, however, she was under depression and mental

stress because of mental and physical harassment and ill-

treatment meted out by the applicants No.1 to 3. It is further

alleged that she was always thinking of committing suicide. On

11.03.2024 she went missing as a result of which the

Respondent No.2/informant lodged a missing report with the

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police station, however, on 12.03.2024 at 02:00 am she was

found lying unconscious in industrial area at Shrirampur.

Thereafter, she was taken to the hospital where she was declared

as dead. The casue of death is shown as consumption of

poisonous substance. Hence, Respondent No.2 lodged the FIR

against the applicants No.1 to 3.

4. The learned counsel for the applicants submits that the

applicants No.1 to 3 are innocent and they have been falsely implicated in

the impugned crime. It is further contended that they have neither

subjected the deceased to harassment nor there was