IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AT GWALIOR BEFORE HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE MILIND RAMESH PHADKE MISC. CRIMINAL CASE No. 30507 of 2023 BHANU PRATAP SINGH ALIAS AMIT CHANDEL Versus THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS Appearance:

Shri Rajmani Bansal - Advocate for the applicant.

Ms. Kalpana Parmar - Public Prosecutor for the State.

Shri Abhishek Tiwari - Advocate for the respondent No.2.

RESERVED ON :- 19/01/2026 DELIVERD ON :- 27/01/2026 ORDER The present petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 has been preferred by the petitioner seeking quashment of FIR bearing Crime No. 73 of 2020, registered at Police Station Ingerganj, District Gwalior, for offences allegedly committed under Sections 376(2)(n) and 313 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, and Section 3(2)(v) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, as well as for quashment of the consequential charge-sheet filed pursuant thereto As per the prosecution case, the complainant/prosecutrix came into contact with the accused, Bhanupratap Singh Chandel alias Amit, through a social networking site. Initially, their acquaintance was only online. The accused represented himself as a prospective groom and repeatedly promised the complainant/prosecutrix that he intended to marry her. Trusting his assurances, the complainant/prosecutrix agreed to meet him in person. The accused came to Gwalior and met the complainant/prosecutrix at Hotel Relax, Shinde Ki Chhawni, Gwalior. During this meeting, he forcibly engaged in sexual relations with her despite her refusal. When she resisted, the accused claimed that such acts were permissible as they were to be married. Thereafter, the accused continued to meet the complainant and during this period, she became pregnant. The accused repeatedly delayed marriage, claiming that he could not marry immediately due to military duties, but assured her that the marriage would happen later. In October 2019, the complainant/prosecutrix was compelled to undergo an abortion in Gwalior. Her friend, Nitin Shakya, accompanied her to the hospital and is aware of the procedure. A few days later, the accused falsely informed complainant/prosecutrix that his phone had been stolen and blackmailers had accessed their private photos. He demanded ₹70,000 from her. On 17 November 2019, when the accused came to Gwalior, the complainant/prosecutrix paid him the demanded amount, consisting of ₹20,000 from her personal savings and ₹50,000 borrowed from Raju Bhai. Despite repeated requests for marriage, the accused avoided any discussion of it and continued to coerce the complainant/prosecutrix into sexual relations multiple times without her consent. Most of their meetings occurred at Hotel Relax, Shinde Ki Chhawni, Gwalior. From 16 February 2020, the accused stopped answering the complainant/prosecutrix’s calls. She later learned from the accused’s family that he had married another woman. The complainant/prosecutrix alleged that the accused deliberately misled her with false promises of marriage, sexually exploited her, coerced her into an abortion, extorted money under threat of blackmail, and caused her significant physical, emotional, and financial harm. On the basis of such allegations, the present FIR has been registered against the accused.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the allegations levelled against the petitioner in the present FIR and the consequential proceedings are entirely false, baseless, malicious, and motivated, as the prosecution has been initiated with a clear ulterior motive and constitutes a gross abuse of the process of law and even if the allegations contained in the FIR are taken at their face value and accepted in their entirety, no cognizable offence is made out against the petitioner and the continuation of the criminal proceedings would result in grave miscarriage of justice.

It was further submitted that the petitioner never misled the complainant with a false pro