Factual Background – Complaints were made by the petitioner under Sections 498A and 406 IPC against her husband and in-laws, alleging severe demands for dowry and subsequent physical and mental cruelty after her marriage in 1998 – The FIR was filed in December 2002 and charge-sheet filed in July 2004 – Magistrate took cognizance on the same day the charge-sheet was filed [Paras 2...
Quashing of FIR and Criminal Proceedings – Petition filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. for quashing FIR lodged at Crime No.999 of 2018 under Sections 498A, 323, 506, 34, 325, and 313 of IPC after mutual divorce settlement – Involves matrimonial dispute between petitioners and respondent no. 2, leading to various legal proceedings and eventual mutual divorce [Paras 2, 4-5].
Matrimoni...
Criminal Law – Money Laundering – Bail Application – Applicant Sanjay Kansal, involved in creating fictitious firms and facilitating bogus transactions leading to siphoning of funds from a bank loan received by M/s SBBEL – Arrested under ECIR for money laundering, with allegations of being instrumental in bogus sales and purchases totaling significant amounts – Applic...
Summoning - Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, Section 28 - Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, Sections 468, 469 - Offence punishable under - Maximum punishment - Imposition of sentence - Scope of - Whether, in a case where an offence is punishable under Section 28 of the Drugs Act with a maximum imprisonment for a term of one year, the Court can take cognizance of the offence beyond the period of limi...
Criminal Law – Quashing of FIR – Petition dismissed –
Petitioner charged under Sections 376 and 506 IPC and Sections 3 and 5(1) of the U.P. Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act, 2021 – Allegations include stalking, rape, and forced conversion – Court declines to interfere with investigation given serious allegations and legislative intent to curtail soc...