IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AT GWALIOR BEFORE HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE MILIND RAMESH PHADKE MISC. CRIMINAL CASE No. 2868 of 2025 MAYA DEVI AND OTHERS Versus THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS Appearance:

Shri Vibhor Kumar Sahu - Advocate for the petitioners.

Shri APS Tomar - Public Prosecutor for the State.

RESERVED ON :- 08/12/2025 DELIVERD ON :- 10/12/2025 ORDER The present petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 / Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed by the petitioners No.1 to 4, namely, Maya Devi, Jeet Singh, Kalyani Sikarwar and Pramod Kumar Goyal respectively seeking quashment of FIR registered vide Crime No. 20/2023 at Police Station Mahila Thana, District Guna, for the offences punishable under Section 498- A of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3 & 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, along with the charge-sheet and all consequential proceedings arising therefrom.

As per prosecution story, on a complaint of consumption of poison, one Bhanu Pratap Chauhan was initially taken in serious condition to District Hospital, Bhind, from where he was referred to J.A.H. Hospital, Gwalior. During treatment, where he exp