USHA DEVI Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PETITIONERS have filed this application for quashing the order dated 4.7.2008 / 5.7.2008 passed by

(2.) FACTS of the case, in brief is that a case has been instituted on the basis of the Written report of the informant Anjali Kumari on 24.1.2006 stating therein that she was married with Chandreshwar Prasad, the petitioner no. 5 on 17.4.2003 according to the Hindu Rites and customs. Thereafter, the accused petitioners started torturing her as her father had given them less amount of Dowry. It is further alleged that the ornaments of rupees 50,000/ - kept in her Almirah, given by the informant's father to the informant, was taken by them. She has further stated that when she has conceived, all the accused persons administered medicine to her and result of which, her pregnancy was terminated. On the basis of this written report a case under section 498A, 313/34 of the I.P.C. and under section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act was registered against all the accused petitioners.

(3.) IT is further submitted that the date of occurrence as mentioned in the F.I.R. is from 22.4.2003 to August 2005 and the written report submitted for the same on 24.1.2006 after five months