VISHAL MALIK & ANR. vs THE STATE (GOVT. OF NCT DELHI) & ANR.

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$~67 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: 02.05.2025 + W.P.(CRL) 835/2025, Crl. M.A. 7776/2025 VISHAL MALIK & ANR. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Madhav Khurana, Sr. Adv. with Ms. Shaurya Singh, Mr. Adarsh Priyadarshni & Mr. Apoorv Shankar, Advs. versus THE STATE (GOVT. OF NCT DELHI) & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Sanjay Lao, Standing Counsel for State. Insp. Umed Singh DIU/Rohini CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINDER KAUR SHALINDER KAUR, J (ORAL) 1. The petitioners have invoked the jurisdiction of this court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, 1950 read with Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) seeking quashing of the FIR bearing No. 76/2025 dated 15.02.2025 (subject FIR) for the offences under Section 125/3(5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and Sections 25/27 of Arms Act registered at Police Station Kanjhawala and all consequential proceedings arising therefrom. 2. It is submitted on behalf of the parties that the petitioner No. 1 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(Crl.) 835/2025 Page 1 of 4 By:NEELAM Signing Date:08.05.2025 15:08:54 is serving in Delhi Police and complainant/respondent no.2 is brother- in-law of respondent No. 2. The dispute arose between wife of petitioner no.1 and respondent no. 2 due to some misunderstanding, whereafter the subject FIR came to be lodged. 3. It is submitted that with the intervention of the well-wishers, family members, relatives and mutual acquaintances, the entire dispute has now been voluntarily settled between the parties vide Settlement Agreement dated 15.02.2025. 4. The present petition is premised on the aforesaid assertion that the dispute inter se the parties stand amicably resolved, of their own volition, uninfluenced by any coercion, compul