$~31 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + CRL.M.C. 4494/2025 & CRL.M.As. 19595/2025, 19596/2025 DEEPAK KUMAR AND ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Ms. Shefali Sangwan, Mr. Shiva Mehrotra, Advocates.

versus STATE OF NCT DELHI & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Hitesh Vali, APP for State.

SI Kirandeep Kaur, PS-K.Pur.

Mr. Anuj Upadhayay, Advocate for R-2.

CORAM:

HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE PRATEEK JALAN

O R D E R

% 28.01.2026

1. The petitioners have filed this petition under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 [“BNSS”] (corresponding to Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 [“CrPC”]) seeking quashing of FIR No. 138/2024 dated 02.04.2024, registered at Police Station K.M. Pur, Delhi, under Sections 498A/406/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 [“IPC”], and all proceedings emanating therefrom, on the ground of settlement.

2. At the very outset, Ms. Shefali Sangwan, learned counsel for the petitioners, submits that due to a typographical error, the FIR number has been mentioned in the petition as FIR No. 134/2024 whereas the FIR number is, in fact, FIR No. 138/2024.

3. Issue notice. Mr. Hitesh Vali, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, accepts notice on behalf of