IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA

Cr. MMO No. 793 of 2025

Reserved on: 13.11.2025

Date of Decision: 02.12.2025

Ramesh Kumar ...Petitioner

Versus

State of H.P. & another. ...Respondent

Coram

Hon’ble Mr Justice Rakesh Kainthla, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?

For the Petitioner : M/s Sarthak Karol and Vaibhav

C Singh Chauhan, Advocates.

For the respondents : Mr. Prashant Sen, Deputy Advocate

General, for respondent No.1/State

Mr. Yudhveer Singh Thakur, Advocate, Legal Aid Counsel for

respondent No.2/victim.

Rakesh Kainthla, Judge

The petitioner has filed the present petition for

quashing of F.I.R. No.21 of 2023, dated 08.11.2023, registered for the commission of offences punishable under Sections 376(2)(n) and 313 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Women Police Station, Shimla, District Shimla and the

consequential proceedings arising out of the said F.I.R.

2. Briefly stated, the facts giving rise to the present petition are that the informant made a complaint to the police, asserting that she was asked to join at Shimla. Her .house was at a distance from Shimla, so she resigned; however, the company did not accept her resignation and transferred her to Panchkula.