IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA CHANDIGARH Reserved on: 29.10.2025 Pronounced on: 17.11.2025 Uploaded on:17.11.2025 SANJEET KUMAR …Petitioner V/S STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER …Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINI SINGH NAGPAL Present: Mr. Vaibhav Sharma, and Mr. Harit Narang, Advocates for the petitioner.

Ms. Kanica Sachdeva, DAG Haryana.

Mr. Eeshan Garg, Advocate for respondent No. 2/complainant.

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SHALINI SINGH NAGPAL J. (Oral)

1. Petitioner seeks quashing of FIR No. 96 dated 22.11.2020 under Sections 376(2)(n), 406, 506, 509 read with Section 34 Indian Penal Code, Police Station Women Bhiwani and ensuing charge sheet. Offences under Sections 406 and 509 IPC were deleted and offence under Section 180 IPC and Section 67-A of Information Technology Act, 2000 were added during investigation.

2. Prosecutrix ‘R’ filed a complaint with SHO, Mahila Thana, Bhiwani, against accused Moji Ram, Rajesh Sheoran, Smt. Sumitra Devi w/o Sh. Mojiram, Rinku daughter of Mojiram, Mahant Shri Sheel Nath Ji Maharaj, Ravinder Singh Sheoran and Advocate Sanjeet Bhalothia, stating that she was an Advocate by profession, practising in Loharu Court and was residing with her 08 years old son. She had a matrimonial dispute with her husband Ravinder Singh Sheoran for the last 08 years, regarding which litigation was pending in various Courts. Her husband had relations with another girl before marriage who was pregnant and started blackmailing him. Her husband solemnized marriage with her to get rid of that girl but after marriage, he harassed her mentally and physically and forced her to commit suicide. The High Court had stayed remarriage, yet, he was residing with some other lady in Bombay and was conspiring with her parents, brother and sister to kill her. Her mother, father, brother, sister had conspired with her husband to compromise with her, take back the child, whereafter her parents would take the custody of the child and kill her. All of them had been collecting evidence against her. They had destroyed all original proofs, so that she may not prove her case in the Court and would go to jail. On that account, she remained under depression. Those persons wanted to prove that she died by suicide out of depression or due to accident and in this context, she could prove recordings. Her husband was in a live-in relation, to the knowledge of her parents, brother and sister. She wanted to divorce him in the year 2016 and settle the dispute but her parents and brother did not allow her to do so. Her sister also had matrimonial dispute with her husband. She did not have any child. Those persons did not allow her sister to divorce her husband. They started taking her and her sister to the Dham of Mahant Shri Sheelnath Ji Maharaj Dhuna, in village Barwas who assured them that he would solve all her problems and her husband would return to her.

3. In the year 2019, she completed Law and tried to make a career in the profession. When she informed her parents regarding her intention to divorce her husband, her parents, brother and husband entered into a criminal conspiracy to assassinate her character, so that she may not be able to get divorce. Her parents threatened to give the custody of 08 year old child to her husband, in case she thought of divorce. They tried to make him mentally sick by administering medicines. She took the child to a hospital in Pilani and consulted a doctor who told her that the child had no ailment and was only obese. She used to pay the school fee from the amount of maintenance but all those persons retained the original slips in order to produce them against her in evidence. She had been residing in Pilani and Loharu on rent and had been paying rent, bills of electricity, grosseries, milk etc. from the maintenance amount but she was not aware that evidence was being collected against her. She was paying her LLB fees and school fee of the child from maintenance amount.

4. In order to disgrace her in the society and t