Supreme Court of India
Charul Shukla v. State of U.P.
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What the Court ordered
In the aforementioned circumstances, keeping the judicial dicta laid down by this Court in mind, the impugned order dated 18.12.2023 of the High Court is set aside and consequently, FIR No.758/2023 dated 15.11.2023 lodged with P.S. Mohammadi, District Khiri; Chargesheet No.01/2024 dated 18.02.2024; and Criminal Case No.634/2025 before the Court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mohamaddi Khiri thereto stand quashed qua the accused/appellants herein who are complainant's sister-in-law and parents-in-law. … The appeals are allowed in the aforesaid terms.
Judgment, 29-30
In brief
The complainant married Utkarsh Awasthi on 16.04.2017 and moved with him to Ghaziabad within five days; the appellants are her sister-in-law (resident in Ghaziabad with her own husband since her 2010 marriage) and her parents-in-law (resident in Kanpur, aged 73 and 71). She alleged a persistent demand of Rs.8,50,000 and a car as additional dowry from the first day of the marriage, that the sister-in-law instigated her husband by alleging an illicit affair, that in July 2017 the appellants restrained her while her husband kicked her stomach causing a miscarriage, that the father-in-law held her hand and committed obscene acts in October 2017, and that on 12.11.2023 all accused assaulted her, took her jewellery and drove her out.…
Authorities it was built on
- 2024 Dara Lakshmi Narayana & Others v. State of Telangana & Another
- State of Punjab v. Sarwan Singh
- State of Haryana v. Bhajan Lal
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