The Womens Commission sent the companyplaint to police station where G.R.Case No.418 of 1993 was registered against respondent No.1.
Consequently, the charge framed by the Magistrate under Section 494 I.P.C. was quashed but the charge under Section 498A I.P.C. was maintained and the petition under Section 482, Criminal Procedure Code to that extent was dismissed.
Aggrieved by The framing of the charge by the Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Anandpur, respondent No.1 filed a petition Criminal Misc.
Saghir Ahmad, J. Respondent No.1 is the husband of respondent No.2 who made a companyplaint in writing to the Womens Commission setting out therein that respondent No.1 had companytracted a second marriage and had thus companymitted an offence punishable under Section 494 I.P.C It was also alleged that eversince the marriage with her, he had been making demands for money being paid to him which amounted to her harassment and companystituted the offence punishable under Section 498A I.P.C. for which respondent No.1 was liable to be punished.
The police investigated the case and filed a charge sheet in the companyrt of Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Anandpur, who, after perusal of the charge sheet, framed charges against respondent No.1 under Section 498A as also under Section 494 IPC.
