Supreme Court of India
Dr. Dhruvaram Murlidhar Sonar v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors.
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We are of the view that, even if the allegations made in the complaint are taken at their face value and accepted in their entirety, they do not make out a case against 935 the appellant.
Judgment, page 15
From the headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.482 – Exercise of power, scope – Discussed. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.482 – Quashing of proceedings – FIR was registered against the appellant an d the co- accused under ss.376(2)(b), 420 r/w s.34, IPC and unde r s.3(1)(x) of the SC/ST Act – Appellant-acussed no.1 was a government doctor while complainant was nurse in the same establishment – Case of complainant was that she had fallen in love with the appellant and that she needed a companion as she was a widow – Th ey were living together, sometimes at her house and sometimes at the residence of
Authorities it was built on
- 1990 State of Haryana and Ors v. Ch. Bhajan Lal and Ors.
- 2013 Deepak Gulati v. State of Haryana
- 2003 Uday v. State of Karnataka
- 2004 Deelip Singh @ Dilip Kumar v. State of Bihar
- 2002 State of Karnataka v. M. Devendrappa and Anr.
- 1999 Rajesh Bajaj v. State Nct of Delhi and Ors.
- 2017 Vineet Kumar & Ors. v. State of U.P. & Anr.
Where later benches applied it
- 2024 Shiv Pratap Singh Rana v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Anr.
- 2020 Maheshwar Tigga v. The State of Jharkhand
- 2025 Biswajyoti Chatterjee v. State of West Bengal & Anr.
- 2024 Ms. X v. Mr. A and Others
- 2021 Kaptan Singh v. The State of Uttar Pradesh and Others
Of those, 2 relied on · 2 referred to · 1 mentioned
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