IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM M-9008 of 2009 Date of Decision:14.1.2010 Pooja .... Petitioner Versus State of Haryana .... Respondent CORAM: Hon'ble Ms. Justice Nirmaljit Kaur Present: Mr. Surender Saini, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Pardeep Virk, D.A.G. Haryana. Mr. Navneet Singh, Advocate for respondent No.2. **** 1.Whether Reporters of Local Newspapers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2.To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3.Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? NIRMALJIT KAUR, J. The present petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. has been moved for quashing of FIR No.50 dated 29.10.2008 registered under Sections 304- B, 498-A, 406, 216, 34 IPC at Women Police Station, District Sonepat (Annexure P-1) qua the petitioner. The petitioner is an unmarried sister-in-law of the deceased. She is an engineer by profession and has been in service since July 2007 at Gurgaon. Since the day of her service, she is stated to be away from the family and has been putting up in a working women hostel at Gurgaon. It is apparent from the perusal, the name of the petitioner does not find figured in the entire FIR. Further, in view of the fact that she has joined her services since 9.7.2007 and has been staying away from the parental house and occasionally visited the village, it appears that she has been implicated only on account of the fact that she was the sister. Even otherwise, an affidavit has been filed by father of the deceased dated 21.11.2009 submitting therein that Rajender (father-in-law), Indrawati CRM M-9008 of 2009 -2- (mother-in-law), Pankaj (husband) and Joginder (co-accused) have been acquitted of the charges vide judgment dated 3.8.2009 passed by the Court of Shri V.K. Bakshi, learned Additional Sessions Judge, Sonepat on the basis of the statements of the father of the deceased namely Anup Singh, mother of the deceased namely Nirmala and the brother of the deceased namely Niraj. As per the affidavit, no allegations were levelled against against the present petitioner-Pooja. In view of the above facts and taking into account that the name of the petitioner does not find figured in the FIR as well as subsequent acquittal of all other co-accused, the present petition is allowed and FIR No.50 dated 29.10.2008 registered under Sections 304-B, 498-A, 406, 216, 34 IPC at Women Police Station, District Sonepat (Annexure P-1) and all subsequent proceedings arising therefrom are hereby quashed qua the petitioner. 14.1.2010 ( NIRMALJIT KAUR ) rajeev JUDGE