NARENDER SINGH vs STATE

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on : 15.12.2025 Judgment pronounced on : 19.01.2026 + CRL.REV.P. 3/2014 & CRL.M.A. 34910/2025, CRL.M.A. 34911/2025 NARENDER SINGH .....Petitioner versus STATE ..... Respondent Advocates who appeared in this case: For the Petitioner : Mr. R. Gopal, Adv. For the Respondent : Mr. Sunil Kumar Gautam, APP for the State with SI Parveen Kumar, PS Malviya Nagar. Mr. Ashish Aggarwal, Mr. D.P. Faizi, Mr. Aanand Aggarwal, Ms. Darshana Aggarwal, Mr. Himanshu Singh, Mr. Rahul Malik, Ms. Tanya Jain and Ms. Nistha Verma, Advs. for R-2. CORAM HON’BLE MR JUSTICE AMIT MAHAJAN JUDGMENT 1. The present revision petition has been filed by the Petitioner/Accused-Sh. Narender Singh, under Section 397, Section 401 read with Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (‘CrPC’) assailing the Order dated 27.09.2013 passed by the learned Signature Not Verified Signed By:HARMINDER KAUR CRL.REV.P. 3/2014 Page 1 of 23 Signing Date:22.01.2026 15:45:00 Additional Sessions Judge-03 (‘ASJ’), South District, Saket Courts, whereby the learned ASJ set-aside the Order of discharge dated 18.07.2012 passed by the learned Metropolitan Magistrate (‘MM’) and directed framing of charge against the Petitioner for the offence punishable under Section 193 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (‘IPC’). 2. The factual matrix giving rise to the present Petition discloses a protracted litigation history. Succinctly stated, it is the case of the Respondent No.2/Complainant- Smt. Indu that she was married to one Pankaj Malhotra on 04.10.1997. Allegedly, on 31.03.2003, a lady named Pooja claimed that Pankaj had obtained an ex-parte Decree of Divorce from Jaipur Court on 04.04.2002 against Indu and Pooja has gotten married to Pankaj on 09.12.2002. It is alleged that