CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. 3319 of 2026 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 3319 of 2026 Chirag Kushwaha And 6 Others .....Petitioner(s) Versus State Of U.P. And 3 Others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Himanshu Mishra Counsel for Respondent(s) : G.A. Court No. - 49 HON'BLE AJAY BHANOT, J. HON'BLE TARUN SAXENA, J. Shri Desh Deepak Singh, learned counsel holding brief of Shri Himanshu Mishra, learned counsel for the petitioners contends that the matter arises out of a matrimonial dispute. The petitioner no.1 is the husband of the victim. False and aggravated assertions have been made in the F.I.R. against the petitioners at the instigation of interested parties. The petitioners did not torture the victim or demand dowry. The criminal proceedings are actuated by malafides and are being leveraged in the matrimonial dispute. Learned counsel for the petitioners has relied upon a judgment of Supreme Court rendered in Geeta Mehrotra and another Vs State of Uttar Pradesh and another reported at (2012) 10 SCC 741 and Kahkashan Kausar Alias Sonam and others Vs State of Bihar and others reported at (2022) 6 SCC 599, wherein the Supreme Court has noticed the tendency of giving crim