HARI PREM RASTOGI Vs. UNION TERRITORY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HARI Prem Rastogi and his wife Pushpa Lata Rastogi, by means of this petition under section 482 Cr.P.C. seek quashing of FIR of 73 of 1993 registered at Police Station West, District UT Chandigarh Annexure P1 on April 28, 1993 and all proceedings resulting therefrom.

(2.) THE impugned FIR was registered on the basis of an application moved by Smt. Mamta Rastogi. The facts stated in the FIR may be briefly stated :-

(3.) THE offence under section 498A, if any. is alleged to have been committed at Meerut and no case can be tried at Chandigarh for that offence. Under the Criminal Procedure Code, an offence has to be tried at the place where it is committed. Section 498A does not fall under any exception given in the Code. The proceedings under section 498A are, thus, quashed on this short ground. The complainant shall have the right to seek her remedies in the proper forum.