Judgment reserved on:-10.07.2025 Judgment delivered on:-28.08.2025

HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL

Criminal Misc. Application No.1198 of 2024

Rinku Sharma and others ………….Applicants

Versus

State of Uttarakhand and another ………..Respondents ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Presence:-

Mr. Piyush Sammal, Advocate for the applicants. Mr. S.S. Chauhan, D.A.G. with Mr. Vikash Uniyal, B.H. for the

State.

Mr. Priya Mewari, Advocate for respondent no.2.

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Hon'ble Pankaj Purohit, J.

The present C482 application has been filed by the

applicants for quashing the cognizance order dated 09.04.2024 and Charge Sheet No.25 of 2024 dated 27.01.2024 in FIR No.435 of 2023, registered at Police Station Rishkesh in Criminal Case No. 241 of 2024, (Computer Generated No.493 of 2024), State Vs. Rinku Sharma and others, under Sections 354, 323, 498-A, 504, 506 IPC and Section 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as “Act of 1961”), pending in the court of learned

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rishikesh, Dehradun.

2. Facts of the case in a nutshell are that an FIR was registered agai