GAHC010257852025 2025:GAU-AS:17803

THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT

(HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH)

Case No. : Crl.Pet./1488/2025

NAZMUL SARKAR

S/O MOKSEDUL MOMIN @ MOKSED ALI, R/O NEWAJESPUR ,

POFULERCHAR, PS SUKCHAR , DIST SOUTH SALMARA ,ASSAM, PIN-

783135

VERSUS

THE STATE OF ASSAM AND ANR

REP. BY THE LEARNED PP, ASSAM

2:MRS ARMINA BEGUM W/O NAZMUL SARKAR

R/O NEWAJESPUR

PO FULERCHAR

PS SUKCHAR

DIST SOUT SALMARA

ASSAM

Advocate for the Petitioner : MR. M ISLAM, MS A KHATUN

Advocate for the Respondent : PP, ASSAM, MR A.K. HAJONG,MR I CHAKMA,MS. D GHOSH

BEFORE

HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH MAZUMDAR

ORDER

18.12.2025

Heard Mr M Islam, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner. Also heard K K

Parashar, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State of Assam; and Mr A K

Hajong, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the respondent No. 2.

2. The instant criminal petition has been preferred under Section 528 of the BNSS, 2023, with the prayer for setting aside and quashing of the proceedings of Special (P) Case No. 240/2024, under Section 9 of the Prohibition of Child Marriage (PCM) Act, 2006, read with Sections 6/17 of the POCSO Act, 2012, against the petitioner and the said case is pendi