ORAL JUDGMENT

Date : 09-12-2025

Heard Mr. Rajeev Kumar Singh, learned senior counsel along with Mr. Sanket, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and Mr. Ajit Kumar, learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner has preferred the application under Section 482 of the Cr.P.C. for quashing the entire criminal proceeding initiated against the petitioner with regard to Kurtha P.S. Case No. 41 of 2009 registered for offences punishable under Section 498A /380 of the Indian Penal Code and all consequential orders including the judgment dated 29.04.2015 passed in G.R. No. 495/09/TR No. 679/15 arising out of the aforesaid F.I.R. whereby the petitioner has been convicted under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code and other co-accused have been acquitted honorably.

3. The prosecution case, in brief, is that the marriage of the informant was solemnized with the petitioner on 07.06.2006 according to Hindu rites, wherein her father allegedly spent about Rs. 5 lakhs and gifted several articles including a Baleno Delta car. It is alleged that the parents of the petitioner had met her prior to the marriage and that after about two months of marriage, the petitioner along with his parent