the letter in bold means that you would need to serve a copy of this quash petition to the opposite party as they are the complainant and need to oppose your petition a case cannot be quashed unless the complainant is given a opportunity of being heard. once you serve the notice you will file a affidavit in court confirming the facts that the notice has been served. This would mean that on next date when after four weeks the case is heard the complainant would be present or will be reresented by a lawyer and will oppose your quash petition.

You can appear in trial court but it would just grant a further date no proceedings would take place as the cae is stayed by high court alternatively your lawyercan take further date on your behalf.

ideally your high court lawyer will serve the notice to the opposite party and prepare a affidavit to this effect and submit in court on nextlisting date.

Sir,

 Thanks for your reply.As per our lawyer we came to know that after four week the complainant have already given a confirmation that they will not be proceeding further on this and thay will not fight this case any more.

But still we are not getting clearing picture as to what will happen next.So please kindly let me know what should be our next move.

if the complainant dont want to proceed further ask them to appear on next listing and file a affidavit to this effect and the case would be quashed.

Sir, Just for my knowledge like to know since HC has given them a specified time of 4 weeks and already the stipulated time is over for more than 3 months should we again need the complainant to appear or HC will automatically quash our case based on the unavailability of the complainant.

My confusion is in this case that if the complainant don't agree to appear for the next listing in that case what should we do to quash the case.

case wont b quashed like this as there need to be some grounds for quashing either there exists a strong case where you could prove that thee existssome valid reasons and allegations in the case are false but that is primae facie hard to prove and high court wont quash unless trial:completes.

the other way is basis a compromise with complainant here it seems the case as you say that complainantbis not interested in pressing the complaint but hc wont presume the same by their non appearance they need to submit a affidavit to this regard through their lawyer or the public prosecutor even if they dont appear personally.

this you would agree to:as a layman that a complaint cannot be quashed unless the complainant is in agreement as this is bad in law to:act in such a way.

Thanks sir for your valuable comments. One last thing as per my understanding in case they dont provide any affidavit or apear before HC for the trail the quash case will continue for indefinite period of time. Is my understanding correct. Pls. let me know. Thanks in advance for your co-operation.

if they dont support quash and if you dont have any extraordinary grounds to get the case quashed the case would be dismissed and sent to trial court ultimately  ashigh court dates are not that easy to get so it might remain stayed for 1-2years  but ultimately it wont be quashed like this your lawyer would know that.

hi,

  my sister had filed an fir 498a in 2009 agains her husband and mother in law of their cruelty, the case came on court in 2013, by that time there were d.v case and maintanence case was on since 2010 on husband and they were proved guilty, when the case of 498a was called on the lower court, the opposite party filed an appeal in high court for quashing, but since then the case has not been heard, all the time we were present but they were absent, in the mean time we have opted out for mutual consent and as per the case withdrawal the money will be paid that is how the clause is, the family court and d.v has been withdrawn.and a divorce petition is filed in family court with mutual consent,which will be granted in november.. my question is...will their appeal for quashing at high court by them will be considered without my sister's consent? the lawyer appointed mutually for this case  is sayiing that there has to be a  fresh petition filed that we are withdrawing the case... but we feel he is delaying it too much...also can they play a game in this matter for not paying the money. if they have any malafied intention, can we go and withdraw the divorce petition that is filed in family court? kindly help cause my sister has been a victim of them since 10 years now.

How to quash 498a??

These days its quite an easy tasks for women to register a FIR by attributing allegations of cruelty and a case is registered and thereby the husband and his family members has to go harassment and torture. Now one remedy is available for them which can relieve them from all the harassment and torture and that is quashing of FIR under 482 CrPC. But this remedy is generally very sparingly and rarely exercised by the courts. Generally allegations of cruelty are mentioned in the FIR and based on this FIR is lodged but sometimes police forgets that in the cases of 498a general allegations of cruelty does not stand, the allegation must qualify either of the two parts as envisaged in section 498a.

Here are some of the valid grounds.

Vague allegation-498a quashed

The case of 498a can be quashed when there are vague the allegations in the FIR. A FIR is a first document on which whole investigation and chargesheet is based.

A FIR is bible for getting evidence and eventually to secure conviction of an accused based on the evidence, therefore a FIR must contain all the material facts related to an offence. It also must contain all the specific ingredient needed for satisfying an offence and material through which investigation may proceed. if a FIR misses material facts then it is a vague FIR which can be quashed by invoking the jurisdiction of 482 CrPC. Image result for 498a quash Some believe that if a FIR satisfies the ingredients of an offence it is not the case for being fit for quashing but this preposition is untrue under the light of the judgement In R.P. Kapur v. State of Punjab (AIR 1960 SC 866) the apex Court summarized some categories of cases where inherent power can, and should be exercised to quash the proceedings. (i) where it manifestly appears that there is a legal bar against the institution or continuance e.g. want of sanction; ii) where the allegations in the first information report or complaint taken at its face value and accepted in their entirety do not constitute the offence alleged; (iii) where the allegations constitute an offence, but there is no legal evidence adduced or the evidence adduced clearly or manifestly fails to prove the charge. so lack of evidence is another ground for quashing proceedings. A FIR containing quite vague, general and sweeping, specifying no instances of criminal conduct can be quashed even if the FIR constitutes and satisfy the ingredients of an offence. It is held in Vishalbhai Niranjanbhai Adatiya … vs State Of Gujarat & on 9 December 2015 It is a matter of common experience that most of these complaints under section 498A IPC are filed in the heat of the moment over trivial issues without proper deliberations. We come across a large number of such complaints which are not even bona fide and are filed with oblique motive. At the same time, rapid increase in the number of genuine cases of dowry harassment are also a matter of serious concern.

False allegations against relatives

Mukesh Rani V. State of Haryana, 2002 MLR 175=2002 (2) Cr.CC 123= 2002 (1) RCR (Cr) 163= 2002 (1) CC Cases (HC) 48 (Pb. & Har.)      

In the instant case respondent No.2 is the husband of respondent No.3 and respondent No.3 is the sister of husband of the complainant. In the FIR, it has not been specifically mentioned what dowry articles were entrusted to respondents 2 and 3 at the time of the marriage. If no article has been entrusted to respondents 2 and 3, then no case under section 406 is made out. It is also not the case of the complainant that respondents2 and 3 are residing with the husband of the complainant. The respondents have placed on record the documents showing that they are employed as teachers and are living separately in village Bamble from the complainant and her husband Satyadev. Even on the date when the alleged occurrence took place respondents were present in their school i.e. on 07.01.1994.

If on the face of the compliant it shows that complaint is false, charge should not be framed. In the instant case, there is evidence that respondent No.3 who is the sister of the husband of the complainant was living separate with her husband-respondent No.2 in a different village and were employed as teacher, the learned trial court has rightly discharged respondents 2 and 3.

For the reasons mentioned above, there is no ground to interfere in the well reasoned orders passed by the learned courts below. Hence this petition is dismissed.

Quashing of false FIR against relatives is much easier

Delay in chargesheet/condonation

Delay in filing chargesheet by police is also a good ground followed by wife conduct in condoning the cruelty thru conduct.

By.

Adv Nitish Banka

Advocate Supreme Court

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