SHER SINGH Vs. STATE (NCT OF DELHI)

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is a Petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Cr.P.C.) preferred by the Petitioner for quashing of FIR No.183/2010, under Section 498-A/406/34 IPC, Police Station Sultan Puri and consequential proceedings arising out of the same.

(2.) FIR No.183/2010 was registered on the basis of the statement made by Respondent No.2 Ms. Sinku Kaur to the effect that she got married to the Petitioner on 06.04.2004. Her father had expired two years before her marriage. After ten days of the marriage, she was being harassed and taunted for not bringing sufficient dowry.

(3.) IT goes without saying that the offence punishable under Section 498A is a non compoundable. In the case of Gian Singh v State of Punjab & Anr. 2012 (9) SCALE 257, the three Judges Bench of the Supreme Court dealt with the issue of quashing of FIR in non compoundable offences. Para 57 of the report is extracted hereunder:-