Supreme Court of India
Sonu Gupta v. Deepak Gupta & Ors.
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2 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.
What the Court ordered
Before parting with the order we make it clear that any observations in this order shall not prejudice the case of either of the parties before the D court below and the criminal complaint case of the appellant must proceed on its own merits strictly in accordance with law.
Judgment, page 13
From the headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 190 - Matrimonial dispute - Complaint of dowry harassment by appellant-wife - Subsequently withdrawn and settlement between the couple - In the instant complaint, allegation of wife that earlier letter of complaint which was withdrawn by her was tampered and a photocopy of such undated complaint was got registered by respondents-husband and in-laws with the help of some police officials and an FIR filed at their instance portraying that it was filed by the appellant - The accusation of the appellant was that the said FIR was neither filed by her nor signed
Authorities it was built on
- 1990 State of Haryana and Ors v. Ch. Bhajan Lal and Ors.
- 1997 M/s. Pepsi Foods Ltd. and Anr. v. Special Judicial Magistrate and Ors.
- 1977 State of Karnataka v. L. Muniswamy & Ors.
- 2012 Amit Kapoor v. Ramesh Chander & Anr.
- 2005 State of Orissa and Anr. v. Saroj Kumar Sahoo
- 2001 P.K. Pradhan v. State of Sikkim Represented by the Central Bureau
- 2012 Nupur Talwar v. Central Bureau of Investigation & Anr.
- 2011 Asmathunnisa v. State of A.P. Represented by the Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad & Another
Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Pramila Devi & Ors. v. The State of Jharkhand & Anr.
- 2019 Rashmi Chopra v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.
Of those, 2 relied on
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