RAKESH KUMAR SHARMA vs STATE & ANR

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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Reserved on: 01st August, 2025 Pronounced on: 06th November, 2025 + CRL.REV.P. 659/2013 & CRL.M.A. 17546/2013 RAKESH KUMAR SHARMA S/o Sh. Radhey Shyam Sharma R/o 3B, H.P. Block, DDA Staff Quarters, Pitampura, Delhi .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Neeraj Anand, Advocate versus 1. THE STATE (Government of NCT of Delhi) 2. SMT. RITU SHARMA D/o Late Sh. S.R. Batra, R/o B-18/C, Tilak Nagar, New Delhi, .....Respondents Through: Mr. Utkarsh, APP with SI Arti, PS: R. K. Puram CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE NEENA BANSAL KRISHNA J U D G M E N T NEENA BANSAL KRISHNA, J. 1. Petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as “Cr.P.C.”) has been filed on behalf of the Petitioner/Rakesh Kumar Sharma challenging the Judgment dated 11.09.2013 vide which learned ASJ has allowed the Criminal Appeal No. 6/2012 against the Judgment of Acquittal dated 07.01.2012 under Section CRL.REV.P. 659/2013 Page 1 of 10 Signature Not Verified DigitallySigned By:RITA SHARMA Signing Date:06.11.2025 18:36:12 498A/406/494/495/419 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereinafter referred to as “IPC”) in FIR No.326/1989 and has remanded the case for retrial. 2. Briefly stated, the Complainant/Respondent No. 2, Smt. Ritu Sharma and the Petitioner were working in the same Department of the DDA. The Complainant alleged that through a friend of the Petitioner, their marriage got arranged and thereafter they got married. They started residing together in quarter No. 26, Type-III, Varun Niketan Pitam Pura, Delhi. 3. It was further alleged in the Complaint that Respondent No. 2 had gone back to her parental home for a few days and when she came back, she found that the Petitioner had vacated the premises and was living with his first wife an