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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA

AT CHANDIGARH

CRR-2784-2022 (O&M)

Date of Decision:- 24.03.2023

AMANDEEP SINGH

....Petitioner

Vs.

STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER

...Respondent

CORAM:-HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE AMARJOT BHATTI

Present:- Mr. K.S. Kahlon, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Kunwarbir Singh, Assistant A.G. Punjab.

Mr. Umesh Aggarwal, Advocate for the respondent No.

2/complainant.

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AMARJOT BHATTI, J. (Oral)

CRM-10247-2023

The counsel for petitioner has filed an application under Section

482 Cr.P.C. for placing on record zimni orders dated 21.10.2021 and

11.11.2021, Annexure P-9 and P-10 respectively.

For the reasons enumerated in the application, the same is

allowed and the accompanied documents i.e. Annexure P-9 and P-10 is

taken on record.

Application stands disposed of.

CRR-2784-2022

1.

The petitioner Amandeep Singh has filed the instant revision

against impugned order dated 10.11.2022 passed by learned Additional

Sessions Judge, Gurdaspur vide which the revision preferred by Baljit

Kaur – complainant was accepted and the impugned order dated

LALIT SHARMA

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11.11.2021 passed by learned Judicial Magistrate 1^st Class, Batala

regarding framing of charge was set aside by giving direction to the Court

concerned to pass fresh speaking order regarding framing of charge after

appreciating the facts and the evidence on record.

2.

As per the facts of the present case, Baljit Kaur - complainant

gave her statement to the police that she got married with Amandeep Singh

on 28.10.2016. Her parents had given her dowry as per their status. After

six months of marriage, her in-laws started harassing her in order to

compel her to bring more dowry. On 15.06.2019, her father Surinder Singh

and brother Sukhjit Singh came to meet her and she narrated all the facts to

them. She was brought back in her parental house. After about one month,

her husband and father-in-law started giving threats on telephone. There

was a meat shop in front of their house. Amandeep Singh and his friends

used to consume liquor and threatened her. She was told to give divorce to

him. The matter was pending before Women Cell, Batala for investigation.

On 31.08.2020 at 07:00 P.M, she was present in the house along with her

family. Amandeep Singh - husband, Didar Singh - father-in-law and

Kuldeep Kaur - mother-in-law came in the said meat shop in front of the

house of complainant and started abusing her family. She along with her

father and brother went near the meat shop and tried to stop them. Her

mother-in-law Kuldeep Kaur raised a lalkara to catch hold of them for

denying to give divorce. Her husband Amandeep Singh and father-in-law

Didar Singh picked up a kadhai of boiling hot oil and poured it on them.

She stepped backward to save herself, as a result, the hot oil fell on her left

side of leg and arm. Her father and brother also received some injuries due

to hot oil. Her father and brother were given treatment in Civil Hospital,

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Fatehgarh Churian, whereas, the complainant was taken to Guru Nanak

Dev Hospital, Amritsar where her statement was recorded. After

completion of investigation, challan was presented in the Court. Copy of

challan report is Annexure P-3. Copy of FIR No. 102 dated 02.09.2020

under Section 307, 498-A, 506, 323/34 of IPC, Police Station Fatehgarh

Churian, Police District Batala, Gurdaspur is Annexure P-2. Copy of DDR

No. 27 dated 23.11.2020 is Annexure P-4 vide which the offence under

Section 307 of IPC was deleted. After hearing arguments on charge, vide

order dated 11.11.2021 Annexure P-10, the charges were framed under

Section 498-A, 324, 323, 506 of IPC and the case was fixed for

prosecution evide