RISHI KUMAR VERMA Vs. STATE OF U.P.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Instant Criminal Revision has been preferred against the judgment and order dtd. 15/6/2024 passed by learned Additional District and Session Judge, Court No.1, Kanpur Nagar in Session Case No.488 of 2024 (State Vs. Rishi Verma and another), arising out of Case Crime No.221 of 2023, under Ss. 498-A, 306 IPC, Police Station Bithoor District Kanpur Nagar. By the impugned order learned court below has dismissed the discharge application 4Kha and 5 Kha filed by accused applicants Risha Verma and Diksha Sharma for discharge under Sec. 227 Cr.P.C.

(2.) Heard Sri Rakesh Dubey, learned counsel for revisionist, Sri Shishir Tandon, learned counsel for respondent no. 2 and learned AGA for the State and perused the material available on record.

(3.) The factual matrix of the case in brief are that informant Smt. Malti Singh wife of Sri Roop Singh, R/o 884 Patel Bihari Bairi Bithoor Road, Kalyanpur Kanpur Nagar lodged an FIR at P.S. Bithoor (Commissionerate) District Kanpur Nagar on 21/6/2023. On the basis of written report, wherein she stated that that informant had married her daughter Priti Singh on 25/6/2014 with Rishi Kumar Verma. She came to know after marriage of her daughter that her son-in-law Rishi Verma was a vagrant and drunkard person, he used to beat and torture her daughter. Her daughter apprised her of the reprehensible acts of her husband, but she used to console her that things would get better in course of time. Her daughter told him that for last five months her husband was having affairs with a girl namely Diksha Verma and she would visit her home also in her absence, she raised objection to this to her husband and firmly asked him to stay away from the girl, but he did not mend his ways and instead engaged in harassing his daughter more often. He would threaten her to give divorce to him by mutual consent, otherwise he would kill her and thereafter would solemnize marriage with Diksha Sharma. On 19/6/2023 in the morning her daughter visited her at her place and the informant assured her that she would ask her husband about this, thereupon her daughter came to the place of her husband; On same day at around 12:00 hours in the night Rishi Verma telephoned her and stated in anger that make your daughter understand his point otherwise dire consequences would ensue. She rushed to the flat of his daughter in anxiety, but found the door closed, Rishi Verma was not there, she telephoned to come to his flat, when he came and opened the lock of the door, she found that her daughter was hanging from ceiling fan by a noose made of a towel around the ceiling fan. She became stunned by seeing this and Rishi Verma escaped from the place, her daughter committed suicide on being harassed and tortured by her husband and his companion Diksha Sharma.