ORAL JUDGMENT

Date : 05-02-2026 Heard the learned counsels for the parties.

2. This is an application seeking quashing of the order dated 01.04.2024 passed by the Court of learned Sub- Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Patna, in connection with Mahila P.S. Case No. 202 of 2018 (G.R. No. 8944/2018) registered for the offences under Sections 4 98(A) and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (in short the I.P.C.) and Sections 3 & 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act , 1961, whereby the discharge petition filed on behalf of the petitioners under Section 239 of the Code of Criminal Procedure , 1973 (in short the Cr.P.C.) has been rejected.

3. The prosecution case is to the effect that the informant/opposite party No. 2 has alleged that his daughter was suffering from some disability in her left leg and he had given an advertisement in order to find a suitable groom stating the aforesaid fact and after seeing the same, the petitioner No. 2, namely, Ram Suresh Singh, contacted the informant/opposite party No. 2 for marriage