The said FIR was registered by the companyplainant appellant in short the appellant against the accused respondents in short the respondents for the alleged offences under Section 498 A and 406 of IPC.
On 31st December, 2001, the appellant lodged an FIR No.221 of 2001 against the respondents for the alleged offences under Section 498A and 406 of IPC.
The respondents also did number allow the appellant to take back her ornaments and other articles, which were gifted to her as stridhan when she left her matrimonial home.
The appellant left her matrimonial home on 25th May, 2001 with her father and brother.
While the petition under Section 482 of the Code was pending, a final investigation report was submitted on 13th February, 2004 in the High Court.
This FIR was challenged by way of a criminal miscellaneous petition under Section 482 of the Code in which the respondents prayed for quashing of the said FIR.
Accordingly, the facts in a nutshell are stated below The appellant had entered into wedlock with the respondent No.2 on 25th January, 2000.
The respondents had also obtained an order granting anticipatory bail from the Sessions Judge, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan on 8th February, 2002.
In the FIR, the appellant alleged that during her stay in her matrimonial home, she was subjected to harassment and cruelty by all the respondents as they were dissatisfied with the articles that the appellant had brought as stridhan.
On 31st July, 2001, the husband, namely, respondent No.2 filed a petition before the Family Court praying for a decree for divorce on the ground of mental cruelty.
The respondents also forced her to bring Rs.5 lacs more in dowry from her father which she companyld number bring from her parents number companyld her parents afford to pay such a huge amount.
The respondent Nos.1, 3, 4 and 5 are the mother in law, brother in law, maternal father in law and the father in law of the appellant respectively.
J U D G M E N T CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.
1242 OF 2007 Arising out of SLP Crl No.
6334 of 2004 TARUN CHATTERJEE, J. Leave granted.
This appeal by special leave is preferred against the judgment and order dated 14th September, 2004 of the High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan at Jaipur Bench, whereby the High Court had quashed an FIR dated 31st December, 2001 lodged at the instance of the appellant in the exercise of its inherent powers under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure hereinafter referred to as the Code .
