Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 203 · Decided 11 February 2025
Suman Mishra & ORS. v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 203 · [2025] 2 S.C.R. 534
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 731/2025
- Decided
- 11 February 2025
- Bench
- B.V. NAGARATHNA, SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376, 498A, 504, 506, 354, 328, 352; CrPC Section 482, 154; Hindu Marriage Act Section 13
Headnote
Whether the High Court erred in finding that there were specific allegations in the FIR and Chargesheet even after dropping the charge of Section 376, IPC in order to maintain the criminal proceedings against the Appellants and thus, dismissing the quashing Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.482 - Quashing - FIR inter alia u/ss.498A, 376, IPC and u/ss.3, 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, filed by Respondent No.2-wife against the appellants (husband and in-laws), primarily alleging rape by her brother-in-law
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