$~132 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + CRL.M.C. 8961/2025 & CRL.M.A. 37428/2025 SATPAL SINGH & ORS. .....Petitioners Through:

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

SI Surjeet, SI Vijay, PS-Mahindra Park.

CORAM:

HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE PRATEEK JALAN

O R D E R

% 21.01.2026

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. 273/2019 dated 12.07.2019, lodged at Police Station Mahendra Park, Delhi, under Sections 498A/406/34 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 [“IPC”], on the ground of settlement.

2. The FIR is registered at the instance of respondent No. 2, who was the wife of petitioner No. 1. Petitioner Nos. 2, 3 and 4 are the brothers of petitioner No. 1, petitioner Nos. 5 and 6 are the parents of petitioner No. 1, petitioner No. 7 is the sister-in-law of petitioner No. 1, and petitioner No. 8 is the sister of petitioner No.1.

3. Petitioner No. 1 and respondent No. 2 were married on 24.11.2015, but due to temperamental differences have lived separately for more than