Supreme Court of India

Batlanki Keshav (kesava) Kumar Anurag v. State of Telangana & Anr.

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Reported as [2025] 7 S.C.R. 242
Bench Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta JJ.
Decided 28 May 2025

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What the Court ordered

Resultantly, FIR bearing Crime No. 103 of 2022 dated 1st February, 2022, FIR bearing Crime No. 751 of 2021 dated 29th June, 2021, and all proceedings sought to be taken as a consequence thereof, are quashed in entirety.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Issue arose as to the correctness of the order passed by the High Court whereby the petition filed by the appellant seeking quashing of the FIR for the offences punishable u/s.376(2)(n) IPC and s.3(2)(v) of the SC/ST(POA) Act, 1989, was rejected. Headnotes† Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s.482 – Penal Code, 1860 – s.376(2)(n) – Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 – s.3(2)(v) – Quashing of FIR – Allegations of establishing sexual relations under false promise of marriage – Complaint by de-facto complainant against the appellant that written

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