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1. The present petition filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 , [$~60] impugns summoning order dated 16^th December, 2024, titled as Rakesh Pradhan @Kalwa v. Jitender & Ors., passed by the Court of JMFC-07, Central District, Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi in C.C. No. 1125/2023, and seeks quashing of the complaint as well as the proceedings emanating therefrom.

2. The matter is currently at a preliminary stage, where the Trial Court has merely issued summons to the Petitioners for alleged offences punishable under Sections 499 , 500, and 504 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 . Nevertheless, the Petitioners, feeling aggrieved, have invoked the jurisdiction of this Court, contending that the complaint constitutes a gross abuse of the process of law and that the impugned summoning order warrants interference. It is argued that the alleged incident forming the basis

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CRL.M.C.4285/2025 Page1of of the complaint took place in District Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, which falls entirely outside the territorial jurisdiction of the Trial Court at Delhi. Furthermore, the complaint, on its face, fails to satisfy the foundational requirement of makin