KOSTUBH DADHICHI ANSHU vs ADITYA JUNIWAL

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 28.02.2025 + CRL.REV.P. 384/2024 and CRL.M.A.8661/2024 (for Delay) KOSTUBH DADHICHI ANSHU .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Peeyoosh Kalra, Mr. Yashwant Singh Baghel Advocates versus ADITYA JUNIWAL .....Respondent Through: Ms. Amisha Bejroi, Advocate CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. The petitioner is aggrieved by the order dated 20.11.2023 [hereafter „the impugned order‟] passed by the learned Judge-02, Family Courts (South), Saket Courts, Delhi [hereafter „Family Court‟] in M. No. 256/2021, whereby her petition filed under Section 125 of the Cr.P.C. was dismissed on the ground of lack of jurisdiction. The petitioner seeks to assail the said order by way of this revision petition filed under Sections 397/401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 [hereafter „Cr.P.C.‟]. 2. Brief facts of the case, as discernible from the material placed on record by either side, are that both the petitioner and the CRL.REV.P. 384/2024 Page 1 of 11 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:28.02.2025 18:19:52 respondent were born and brought up in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Their marriage was solemnized at Arya Samaj Mandir, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. This marriage, as per petitioner, was solemnized in February, 2019, whereas the respondent claims that it was solemnized in April, 2019. The marriage was also registered in Ghaziabad. Eventually, another marriage ceremony, for the purpose of performing certain Hindu rites and rituals, took place on 10.07.2019 in Jaipur, Rajasthan. The petitioner had thereafter joined her matrimonial home at Jaipur, and had lived with the respondent for about four months. In November, 2019, the petitioner had left her matrim