MOHAMMAD RIZWAN vs STATE OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: 27.02.2025 CRL.M.C. 367/2025 MOHAMMAD RIZWAN ..... Petitioner Through: Mr.Arjun Malik, Advocate with petitioner in person. versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Ms. Kiran Bairwa, APP for State with SI Vishal Tiwari, P.S. Special Cell and SI Sandeep Kumar, P.S. Prem Nagar. Respondent No.2 through VC. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANOOP KUMAR MENDIRATTA % JUDGMENT ANOOP KUMAR MENDIRATTA, J (ORAL) CRL.M.A. 1789/2025 Exemption allowed, subject to just exceptions. Application stands disposed of. CRL.M.C. 367/2025 1. Petition under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (‘BNSS’) has been preferred on behalf of the petitioner for quashing of FIR No. 0420/2019, under Section 4 of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019 registered at P.S.: Prem Nagar. 2. In brief, as per the case of the petitioner, marriage between petitioner and respondent No. 2 was solemnized according to Muslims rites and ceremonies on 26.03.2018. A male child was born out of the wedlock and is presently in custody of respondent No. 2. Due to matrimonial differences, petitioner and respondent No.2 sta