IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH

SHIMLA Cr.MMO No.883 of 2025 Date of Decision: 19.11.2025 Deepak Kunddu & Ors. …Petitioners Versus State of H.P. & Ors. …..Respondents Coram:

The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Virender Singh, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?

For the Petitioners : Mr. Ashok K. Tyagi and Ms.

Divya Rajta, Advocates.

For the Respondents : Mr. Tejasvi Sharma, Additional Advocate General, with Ms. Ranjna Patial, Deputy Advocate General, for respondents No.1 to

3/State.

Mr. Vinod Chauhan, Advocate, for respondent No.4.

Virender Singh, Judge (Oral)

Petitioners have filed the present petition, under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (hereinafter referred to as ‘BNSS’), for quashing of FIR.17 of 2021, dated 03.08.2021, (hereinafter referred to as the FIR, in question), registered with Women Police Station, Nahan, District Sirmaur, H.P., under Sections 498A, 406, 506 & 34 of the Indian Penal Code, (hereinafter referred to as the ‘IPC’), as well as, the proceedings resultant thereto,

1 Whether reporters of Local Papers may be allowed to see the judgment?

which are stated to be pending before the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nahan, District Sirmaur,