NITIN KUMAR AND ORS vs STATE (NCT OF DELHI) AND ANR

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$~86 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 21.05.2025 + CRL.M.C. 3308/2025 NITIN KUMAR AND ORS .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Hemant, Advocate. versus STATE (NCT OF DELHI) AND ANR .....Respondents Through: Mr. Nawal Kishore Jha, APP for State with SI Renu Pawar, PS Gokulpuri. CORAM: JUSTICE GIRISH KATHPALIA JUDGMENT (ORAL) 1. Petitioners seek quashing of FIR No. 158/2024 of PS Gokul Puri for offence under Section 498A/406/34 IPC. It is submitted by both sides that they have compromised the disputes. All petitioners and respondent no.2 have personally appeared in court, identified by their respective counsel and the IO/SI Renu Pawar. 2. On the face of it, the present case appears to be an innocuous petition to seek quashing of FIR related to matrimonial disputes. But a reading of the FIR shows that it is not so. In the FIR, the present respondent no.2 has CRL.M.C. 3308/2025 Page 1 of 3 pages Signature Not Verified GIRISH Digitally signed by GIRISH KATHPALIA Digitally Signed KATHPALIA Date: 2025.05.21 17:02:45 +05'30' By:RAHUL YADAV Signing Date:21.05.2025 19:19:12 levelled quite obnoxious allegations against the petitioners. It is alleged in the FIR that the petitioners, without her knowledge clicked her pictures and videos and thereafter threatened to circulate the same unless she would agree for oral and anal sex, so she succumbed to the pressures. The petitioner no.1 also threatened respondent no.2 that he would upload all those videos and photographs on social media. Further, according to respondent no.2, her father-in-law and both brothers-in-law molested her as and when they got a chance. The respondent no.2 in the FIR has also narrated the specific instances when she was molested by her brothers-in-law and even father-in- law. 3. In the cour