INDERJIT SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioners have filed this petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C with a prayer for quashing FIR No. 98 dated 19.06.2012 under Section 498 -A, 406 IPC, registered at Police Station Model Town, Hoshiarpur, District Hoshiarpur.

(2.) I have heard learned counsel for the petitioners, the State counsel and counsel for complainant - respondent No. 2. Petitioner No. 1 is the husband of complainant and petitioner No. 2 and 3 are parents of petitioner No. 1. Marriage of petitioner No. 1 and respondent No. 2 was solemnized on 20.01.2010 and a female child wasborn from the wedlock on 07.01.2011. There are also several allegations including entrustment of dowry articles. An amount of Rs. 8,00,000/ - was spent in the marriage. It is stated by the complainant that petitioner No. 1 demanded further cash of Rs. 6,00,000/ - for settling in U.K. Some articles were given to the in -laws of complainant even after birth of the child. It was further stated that petitioner No. 1 was not happy with the birth of a female child and behavior of all the petitioners with respondent No. 2 was not good. They were treating her with cruelty on this account as well as for not meeting the demand of more dowry.

(3.) LEARNED counsel for the petitioners vehemently contends that the facts mentioned in the FIR are manifestly wrong as it was stated that the complainant was living with her parents since 26.03.2010 whereas the certificate (Annexure P -4) issued by the Nursing Home shows that the child was born at Ferozepur in the month of January 2011 where the in -laws family of complainant resides. I do not find any substance in the above contention as the contents of FIR make it very clear that the complainant is residing with her parents since 26.03.2011. The date mentioned in the initial part of FIR is apparently an error and should not be given any importance in the instant petition.