2026:CGHC:18651-DB NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR CRMP No. 705 of 2026 Aanchal Sharma W/o Saikat Sharma Aged About 31 Years R/o D/802, Millennium Chowk, Sundar Nagar, P.S. Dd Nagar And Distt. Raipur MANPREET (C.G.)

KAUR Digitally signed b K y A U M R ANPREET --- Petitioner(s)

Date: 2026.04.23 17:48:16 +0530 versus

1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through Station House Officer (Sho) P.S.

Kanker, Distt. Kanker, (C.G.)

2 - Saikat Sharma S/o Shiv Kumar Sharma Aged About 34 Years R/o Tikrapara, P.S. Kanker, Distt. Kanker (C.G.)

--- Respondent(s)

For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Pragalbha Sharma, Advocate For Respondent(s) : Ms. Vaishali Mahilong, Dy. G.A. and Mr. Anmol Sharma, Advocate CRMP No. 1026 of 2026

1 - Saket Sharma S/o Shiv Kuamr Sharma Aged About 34 Years R/o 902/k/2, Gaya Nagar, Ward No. 4, Durg Tehsil And District- Durg Chhattisgarh

2 - Smt. Uttara Devi Sharma W/o Shiv Kumar Sharma Aged About 63 Years R/o 902/k/2, Gaya Nagar, Ward No. 4, Durg Tehsil And District-

Durg Chhattisgarh ---Petitioner(s)

Versus

1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through Station House Officer, Police Station- Kanker, District- Kanker, Chhattisgarh

2 - Smt. Anchal Sharma W/o Saket Sharma Aged About 31 Years R/o D-802, Millenium Chowk, Sundar Nagar, Police Station-D.D. Nagar, Raipur, Tehsil And District Raipur, Chhattisgarh (Complainant In The Instant Crime)

--- Respondent(s)

For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Anmol Sharma, Advocate For Respondent(s) : Ms. Vaishali Mahilong, Dy. G.A.

Hon'ble Shri Ramesh Sinha, Chief Justice Hon'ble Shri Ravindra Kumar Agrawal , Judge Judgment on Board Per Ramesh Sinha , Chief Justice

23.04.2026

1. Heard Pragalbha Sharma and Mr. Anmol Sharma, learned counsel for respective petitioners. Also heard Ms. Vaishali Mahilong, learned Deputy Government Advocate appearing for respondent / State and Mr. Anmol Sharma, learned counsel, appearing for respondent No.

2 in CRMP No. 705/2026.

2. As per the mediation report dated 06.04.2026, the mediation between the parties has failed.

3. The brief facts, emerging collectively from both the petitions, reveal that the marriage between the husband/Saket Sharma and the wife/Smt. Anchal Sharma was solemnized on 07.06.2023 at Kumhari, District- Durg, in accordance with Hindu rites and ceremonies, and the mother of the husband is also involved in the dispute. Soon after the marriage, serious matrimonial discord arose between the parties, with each side levelling allegations of cruelty, harassment, and misbehavior against the other. While the wife alleges that she was subjected to physical and mental cruelty by the husband and his family members, leading to the lodging of FIR No. 487/2023 dated 08.12.2023 at Police Station Kanker against the husband, the husband, on the other hand, asserts that the wife was quarrelsome from the very inception of marriage, frequently leaving the matrimonial home, raising repeated monetary demands, and even subjecting him to physical assault, coupled with threats to implicate him and his family in false cases by using the alleged influence of her father in the police department. It is borne out from the record that the said earlier criminal case culminated in a compromise between the parties, resulting in acquittal of the husband on 11.06.2025, however, the relationship did not improve and the parties continued to live separately. Thereafter, the husband instituted divorce proceedings under Section 13(1) of the Hindu Marriage Act before the Family Court at Durg on 02.02.2026 and also submitted a prior representation to the police authorities apprehending false implication. The dispute escalated on 06.02.2026, when the wife travelled to Kanker and an altercation took place between the parties, resulting in registration of cross FIRs on the same day FIR No. 53/2026 at the instance of the wife against the husband and his mother, and FIR No. 54/2026 at the instance of the husband against the wife, both under the provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. The material on record thus reflects that both