SRIMATI NEELAM TRIPATHI Vs. STATE OF U.P.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Mr. Rishad Murtaza, learned Counsel for the Petitioners and Mr. Rajendra Kumar Dwivedi, learned Additional Government Advocate for the State.

(2.) THE Petitioners being sister -in -law and mother -in -law of the Respondent No. 2, have challenged the proceedings of Criminal Case No. 1821 -A of 2010, under Sections 498 -A, 323, 504, 506 IPC and Section 3(1)(X) of SC and ST Act, Police Station Krishna Nagar, district Lucknow, inter alia on the ground that though the complainant at the time of lodging the First Information Report deposed the case as the case of abduction, rape and demand of dowry, but ultimately through her statement during the course of evidence she admitted marriage with Mr. Rajeev Kumar Tripathi, though it was an inter -caste marriage, and ultimately denies the charges levelled against the husband.

(3.) ON this ground the learned Counsel for the Petitioners submits that the present proceeding arising out of said case shall be futile exercise that too against the relatives for the allegations for commission of offences as are there.