CRM No. M 12770 of 2008 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH -- CRM No. M 12770 of 2008 Date of decision: 09.12.2009 Jasvir Kaur and another ........ Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and another .......Respondent(s) Coram: Hon'ble Ms Justice Nirmaljit Kaur -.- Present: Mr. G S Sandhu, Advocate for the petitioners Mr. K S Pannu, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab for the respondent-State -.- 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgement? 2. To be referred to the Reporter or not? 3. Whether the judgement should be reported in the Digest? Nirmaljit Kaur, J. (Oral) This is a petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C for quashing of FIR No. 95 dated 31.08.2007 registered under Section 498-A of Indian Penal Code at Police Station Jhunir, District Mansa. Facts of the case in short are that petitioner No. 1 Jasvir Kaur is sister-in-law of complainant, namely, Randip Kaur and petitioner No. 2 Gagandeep Singh is the husband of petitioner No. 1. It is not denied that the petitioners were married earlier to that of CRM No. M 12770 of 2008 2 the complainant and are residing in Village Bakshiwala, Tehsil Sunam, District Sangrur. The complainant, herein, lodged the aforesaid FIR levelling all sort of vague allegations against the entire family of her in-laws and the present petitioners have also been roped in. A perusal of the complaint shows that the allegations levelled against the petitioners are general in nature. No specific allegation is made against the petitioners. The present FIR is a result of the growing tendency to implicate the entire family of her in-laws. Even otherwise, petitioner No. 1, who is the married sister-in-law is staying away from the family of the complainant and the allegations being vague, the ingredients of Section 498-A Cr.P.C. are not made out from the perusal of the aforesaid FIR. In view of the above, FIR No. 95 dated 31.08.2007 registered under Section 498-A of Indian Penal Code at Police Station Jhunir, District Mansa and further proceedings arising out of the same deserve to be quashed qua the petitioners only being misuse of the process of law. The present petition is accordingly allowed. (Nirmaljit Kaur) Judge December 09, 2009 mohan