Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 729 · Decided 8 May 2023
Priyanka Mishra & Ors v. The State of Madhya Pradesh & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 729 · [2023] 5 S.C.R. 1152
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1545/2023
- Decided
- 8 May 2023
- Bench
- SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 4, 498, 34; CrPC Section 482
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.482 - Quashing of FIR - Complaint filed by Respondent no.2-wife against appellants (sister-in-law, mother-in-law and father-in-law) and her husband for offences punishable u/s.498-A s.4, Dowry Prohibition Act - Petition filed by appellants u/s.482 for quashing, dismissed - On appeal, held: FIR in question as far as appellants are concerned, is an abuse of the process of the Court - Respondent No.2 resided for less than three weeks in the matrimonial home
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