HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH

AT SRINAGAR

Case No. CrLM No. 150/2024

CRM(M) No. 162/2023

Reserved on: - 12.12.2025 Pronounced on: - 26.12.2025

Uploaded on: - 26.12.2025

Whether the operative part or full

judgment is pronounced: - Full.

Shakeel-ul-Rehman and Anr. …. Appellant(s)

Through: - Mr. Sheikh Younis, Advocate

V/s

Station House Officer Women Police Station Anantnag &

Anr.

Through: - Mr. Ilyas Nazir Laway, GA

CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY PARIHAR, JUDGE

JUDGMENT

01. The petitioners have invoked the inherent jurisdiction of this Court to challenge FIR No. 06/2023 registered under Sections 498-A IPC and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, at Police Station Women, Anantnag, at the instance of respondent No. 2. The principal ground urged is that the impugned FIR is a clear abuse of the process of law, having been lodged with mala fide intent after respondent No. 2 had already resorted to multiple civil and quasi-

criminal proceedings against petitioner No. 1.

02. It is contended that respondent No. 2 had earlier filed a petition under Section 125 Cr. PC seeking maintenance for herself and the minor child, and

had also initiated proceedings under Section 12 of the Protectio