VASUDEV ARORA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) 17 accused petitioners have filed this application for quashing the proceedings against them. Their prayer is as under: " It is therefore prayed that the petition under section 482 Cr. P. C. may kindly be accepted and the order of the learned trial court dated 11. 3. 1986 may kindly be quashed. " On 11th March, 1986 the Magistrate No. 13 of Jaipur City considered the complaint by police filed under section 156 Cr. P. C. which was sent for investigation under section 155 (2) Cr. P. C. and also looked into the statement of 161 Cr. P. C. He then passed the following order: ******************** The above order is being challenged by the learned counsel for the petitioner on the ground that looking at the depth the entire evidence it was pointed out that the entire evidence read as a whole consists of persons who have named only three persons Vasudev Arora, Smt. Nareshi and Vinod Kumar as participants in the marriage or abating the participation of harassing in the marriage. In this connection the statement of the only eye witness Sardar Kalyan Singh who acted as priest in the marriage which was performed was read over as a whole both by Mr. Gupta appearing for the non-petitioner and Mr. Surana.

(2.) AFTER reading the statement as a whole it was conceded by Mr. Gupta that this witness is the only witness who witnessed the marriage has named only three persons the above named three persons and none else.

(3.) CONSEQUENTLY, the proceedings and taking cognizance of the case against all other petitioners are quashed.