HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Criminal Misc. Application No. 818 of 2017

25^th July, 2025 Pallavi and Others -Applicants Versus State of Uttarakhand and Others -Respondents ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Presence:-

Dr. Kartikey Hari Gupta, learned counsel alongwith Mr. Rafat Munir Ali, learned counsel for the applicants.

Mr. B.N. Maulaki, learned Deputy Advocate General for the State. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Hon'ble Alok Mahra, J.

This criminal miscellaneous application has been filed by the applicants challenging the charge-sheet dated 25.11.2016, summoning/cognizance order dated 10.01.2017 passed by learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Udham Singh Nagar, in Criminal Case No. 192 of 2017 and the entire proceedings arising out from it.

2. Heard learned counsel for the parties on merits and perused the records.

3. Brief facts of the case are that on 01.12.2014, the applicant no. 1 – Smt. Pallavi Jha was married to deceased Aditya Raj at Bhagalpur, Bihar. After the marriage, both husband and wife lived happily at Jamshedpur for some time; that on 21.04.2015, deceased Aditya Raj joined his services with