HARI NATH & ORS. vs THE STATE OF NCT OFDELHI & ANR.

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$~66 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: 08.07.2025 + CRL.M.C. 2247/2025 HARI NATH & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Manoj Kumar Sharma, Adv. along with petitioners. versus THE STATE OF NCT OFDELHI & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Ms. Meenakshi Dahiya, APP for State along with respondent no. 2. CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINDER KAUR SHALINDER KAUR, J (ORAL) CRL.M.A. 10035/2025 (Exemption) 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. 2. Application stands disposed of. CRL.M.C. 2247/2025, CRL.M.A. 19226/2025 3. By way of the present petition under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, the petitioners seek to quash the FIR bearing No. 559/2014 dated 10.07.2014 for offences punishable under Sections 498A/406 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 registered at Police Station Burari, and all consequential proceedings arising therefrom. 4. It is submitted by the learned counsels for the parties that the petitioner no.1 is the husband of respondent no.2 and their marriage Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed CRL.M.C. 2247/2025 Page 1 of 4 By:RASHIM KAPOOR Signing Date:09.07.2025 18:22:43 was solemnized on 15.05.2011, in accordance with the Hindu rites and customs at Delhi and no child is born out of the said wedlock. However, owing to certain misunderstandings that arose between them, the parties started living separately since 18.04.2013. The marriage suffered an irretrievable breakdown, attributable to the temperamental incompatibility between petitioner no.1 and respondent no.2. 5. He submits that the temperamental differences, coupled with raising demands of dowry and increasing harassment, led to the registration of the subject FIR and filing of litigations by the respondent no. 2. 6. He further submits that with the interven