MAYANK SHARMA AND ORS vs STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND ORS

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$~61 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 21.08.2025 + CRL.M.C. 5792/2025 & CRL.M.A. 24787/2025 MAYANK SHARMA AND ORS .....Petitioners Through: Ms. Renu, Ms. Humaira Salam and Ms. Swagata, Advocates with petitioners in person. versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND ORS .....Respondents Through: Mr. Nawal Kishore Jha, APP for the State with ASI Rajender Singh Ms. Sonu Kumari, Ms. Tanya Qureshi, Advocates for R-2 & R-3 (through videoconferencing) CORAM: JUSTICE GIRISH KATHPALIA J U D G M E N T (ORAL) 1. Petitioners seek quashing of case FIR No. 177/2024 of PS Kotla, Mubarakpur for offence under Section 354/323/341/427/34 IPC on the ground that the complainant de facto (respondent no.2) and victim/respondent no. 3 have settled the disputes with the petitioners. 2. Broadly speaking, this is a case of road rage where side view mirror of car being driven by complainant de facto slightly brushed by the side of one of the petitioners, after which those 5-6 boys (petitioners herein) started violently hitting the car and assaulting the complainant de facto as well as CRL.M.C. 5792/2025 Page 1 of 3 pages Digitally signed by GIRISH KATHPALIA DN: c=IN, o=HIGH COURT OF DELHI, GIRISH 2.5.4.20=8401dd889b27a77b2f65ffffe4afe c45569af3962c6fb4835d435f97626cacca, ou=HIGH COURT OF DELHI,CID - 7047638, Signature Not Verified KATHPALIA postalCode=110003, st=Delhi, serialNumber=d3e86796451ec45c07b5d 15570996b40f80cbd2eee60402c487965ff 801e26fa, cn=GIRISH KATHPALIA Date: 2025.08.21 18:34:13 -07'00' Digitally Signed By:NEETU N NAIR Signing Date:21.08.2025 18:42:15 his sister and nine year old niece of the complainant de facto, who were sitting in the car. All through, the complainant de facto and his sister kept apologising but the petitioners were apparently under the influen