IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AT GWALIOR BEFORE HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE MILIND RAMESH PHADKE MISC. CRIMINAL CASE No. 20520 of 2023 VIKASH SHARMA AND OTHERS Versus THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS Appearance:

Shri Prakash Braru - Advocate for the petitioners.

Ms. Kalpana Parmar - Public Prosecutor for the State.

Shri Khub Chand Verma, Upendra Kumar Shrivas and Deepak Kumar Gupta - Advocates for the respondent No.2.

RESERVED ON :- 17/02/2026 DELIVERD ON :- 23/02/2026 ORDER By invoking the inherent powers of this Court, the present petition has been preferred by the petitioners No.1 and 2, namely, Vikash Sharma and Pankar Rajput under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS)/482 of CrPC seeking quashment of F.I.R. registered as Crime No. 257 of 2022 at Police Station University, District Gwalior (M.P.) for the offence punishable under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B of IPC and all consequential criminal proceedings arising therefrom.

FACTS As per prosecution story, the complainant/respondent No.2, Smt.

Munni Devi @ Meena Verma, wife of Shri Khoobchand Verma, aged about

70 years, resident of Subhash Bada, Danaoli, Lashkar, Gwalior (M.P.), filed a private