Serial No. 70

Supplementary-2 Cause List

HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH

AT SRINAGAR

[Through Virtual Mode]

CrlM Nos. 1214/2025 & 1940/2025

Dated: 19^th of December, 2025.

Shabir Ahmad Bhat and Ors

… Petitioner(s)

Through: -

Mr Lone Altaf, Advocate.

V/s

Senior Superintendent of Police, District Anantnag and Ors.

… Respondent

Through: -

Ms Nowbahar Khan, Assisting Counsel vice

Mr Ilyas Nazir Laway, Government Advocate for R-1 to 3; and

Mr Showkat Hussain Mir, Advocate for R-4.

CORAM:

HON’BLE MR JUSTICE M. A. CHOWDHARY, JUDGE

(JUDGMENT)

01. Through the medium of the instant Petition filed under Section 528 of the Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, the Petitioners seek quashment of FIR No. 07/2025 registered at Police Station, Women’s Cell, Anantnag for the commission of offences punishable under Sections 498A and 384 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as well as any other proceedings, if

any, initiated in consequence thereof.

02. On a bare perusal of the pleadings available on record, more particularly the FIR impugned, it appears that a matrimonial discord arose between the Petitioner No.3 herein and Respondent No.4 herein, resulting into registration of the impugned FIR, wherein the Respondent