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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 18.12.2025 Judgment pronounced on: 18.03.2026 Judgment uploaded on: 24.03.2026 + CRL.M.C. 2551/2025 & CRL.M.A. 11417/2025 DR RITA BAKSHI .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Rakesh Malhotra, Mr.

Bharat Malhotra and Ms.

Smritika Kesri, Advocates versus SEEMA BAJAJ & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Raajan Chawla, Ms.

Pallavi Yadav and Ms.

Lavanya Chadha, Advocates Mr. Manoj Pant, APP for the State along with SI Amisha Kumari CORAM:

HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA

J U D G M E N T

DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J

1. The petitioner has approached this Court seeking quashing of the order dated 21.01.2025 [hereafter ‗impugned order‘] passed by the learned Judicial Magistrate, First Class-03, South District, Saket Courts, Delhi [hereafter ‗Magistrate‘] in CT Case No. 2771/2024 titled ‘Dr. Seema Bajaj v. M/s Embryo Health Pvt. Ltd. & Anr.’.

INTRODUCTION

2. The issue that arises for consideration in the present case pertains to the interpretation of Section 223 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 [hereafter ‗BNSS‘], and in particular, the scope and effect of the newly introduced first proviso to Section 223(1) of BNSS, whi