IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. M-11394 of 2011 (O&M) Date of Decision : 12.12.2011. Deepinder Singh & others ...... Petitioners Versus State of Punjab & another ...... Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr. R.K. Bajaj, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. Palwinder Singh, Sr. DAG, Punjab. NAWAB SINGH J.(ORAL) This petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure seeking quashing of (i) First Information Report No.190 dated November 30th, 2007 under Sections 380 and 506/120-B of Indian Penal Code, Police Station City, Nawanshahar; (ii) Orders dated October 17th, 2008 passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawanshahar, whereby petitioners were ordered to be charged under the aforesaid Sections and accordingly charge-sheeted (Annexure P-5 and P-6 respectively). 2. Aforesaid FIR was registered by Charan Kaur mother of Jaswinder Kaur-petitioner No.5 wife of petitioner No.1 alleging that on November 8th, 2007 at 5 PM her daughter had stolen gold ornaments weighing 297 gms worth Rs.5 lacs and she along with the petitioners threatened her with dire consequences because she married with Deepinder Singh against her will. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners has contended that the petitioner could not prove in her statement made before the Police as to from where she has arranged an amount of Rs.5 lacs to purchase gold ornaments. He has also stated that FIR was registered only to pressurize the petitioners because the daughter of the complainant married with Deepinder Singh-petitioner No.1 against her wishes and petitioners No.2 to 4 are brother, mother and relations of Deepinder Singh. Criminal Misc. No. M-11394 of 2011 (2) 4. In this case, charges have already been framed. Trial is pending for December 13th, 2011 for recording evidence of the prosecution as informed by learned State counsel. There is no substantial material placed on record by the petitioners to disbelieve the story of Charan Kaur. At this stage, statement of complainant has to be taken in a prima-facie manner until it is proved otherwise. In view of this, there is no cogent ground to quash the FIR. Hence, the petition is dismissed. (NAWAB SINGH) JUDGE 12.12.2011. SN