KUNAL BEDI & ORS. vs THE STATE OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR.

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$~50 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: 12.03.2025 + CRL.M.C. 807/2025 KUNAL BEDI & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Md. Qamar Ali, Adv. with petitioners in person. versus THE STATE OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Digam Singh Dagar, APP for State. W/SI Anjali Tomar PS Mukherjee Nagar. Respondent no.2 in person. CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINDER KAUR SHALINDER KAUR, J. (ORAL) CRL.M.A. 3750/2025 (exemption) 1. Allowed, subject to just exceptions. 2. The application stands disposed of. CRL.M.C. 5366/2024 3. The present Petition has been filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) by the Petitioners, who are the Husband, Father-in-law and Mother-in-law of the Complainant / Respondent No. 2, seeking to quash the FIR No. Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed Crl.M.C. 807/2025 Page 1 of 4 By:NEELAM Signing Date:17.03.2025 19:39:54 577/2020 dated 09.12.2020 (subject FIR) registered under Sections 498-A/406/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (‘IPC’) at Police Station Mukherjee Nagar, Delhi. 4. Consequent upon completion of the Investigation in the present matter, the Charge-sheet dated 17.05.2021 was filed for the offences under Sections 498A, 406, 34 of IPC, the case for which was pending disposal before the JMFC-02, (Mahila Court), North, Rohini Courts, Delhi. 5. The present Petition is premised on the Settlement/Agreement dated 12.09.2024 arrived at between the parties through Mediation before the Delhi Mediation Centre, Rohini District Courts, Delhi and the divorce decree dated 08.01.2025 which is the culmination of Petitions under sections 13B(1) and 13B(2) of the Hindu Marriage Act 1955, whereby the parties had sought dissolution of their marriage by mutual consent. No appeal is stated to have b