MAYANK SONDHI & ORS. vs STATE GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI AND ANR.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: 07.07.2025 CRL.M.C. 2519/2025 MAYANK SONDHI & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: versus STATE GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI AND ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Satish Kumar, APP for State. CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINDER KAUR SHALINDER KAUR, J (ORAL) CRL.M.A. 11284/2025, CRL.M.A. 11285/2025 (Exemption) 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. 2. Applications stand disposed of. CRL.M.C. 2519/2025, CRL.M.A. 11286/2025 3. The present petition has been filed by the petitioners under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, seeking to quash the FIR bearing No. 0534/2021 dated 28.06.2021 for offences punishable under Sections 498A/406/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 registered at Police Station Rajouri Garden, West, Delhi, (“subject FIR”) and all consequential proceedings emanating therefrom. 4. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioner 2. The marriage between the petitioner no. 1 and the respondent no. 2 was solemnized on 12.04.2016, in accordance with the Sikh rites and ceremonies and a male child, namely, Kartik was born out of the said wedlock. He submits that due to the irreconcilabl