IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AT JABALPUR BEFORE HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE B. P. SHARMA

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ON THE 22 OF JANUARY, 2026 MISC. CRIMINAL CASE No. 57437 of 2023 PRASHANT KUMAR CHOUHAN Versus THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS Appearance:

Shri Anil Khare, Senior Advocate with Shri Ravi Upadhyay -

Advocate for the petitioner.

Smt. Shipra Gupta - PL for respondent No.1/State.

Shri Paritosh Gupta, Advocate for the respondent No.2.

ORDER By way of the present petition filed under Section 528 of the BNSS

2023 (Sec.482 of the Cr.P.C), the applicant seeks quashment of FIR No.262/2019 dated 20.11.2019 (Annexure P/1) registered at Police Station Civil Lines, Jabalpur, for the offences under Sections 376(2)(d), 376(2)(k), 376(2)(n) and 313 of the Indian Penal Code and order dated 27.7.2023 (Annexure P/2) passed in ST No.225/2023 by VIII Addl. Sessions Judge, Jabalpur framing charge against the petitioner for the offence under Sections

376(2)(d), 376(2)(n) and 313 of the Indian Penal Code.

2. As per the facts discernible from the FIR, the respondent/complainant is posted as a Jail Guard at Central Jail, Narsinghpur. She was earlier posted at Jabalpur Jail on the same post since the year 2003.

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