Supreme Court of India
Ishwar Chand Sharma 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 15.09.2025 of the High Court is set aside and consequently, Complaint Case No.05 of 2025 dated 10.09.2024, cognizance order dated 07.02.2025 and the summoning order dated 18.08.2025 before the Court of Special Judge (POCSO Act)/Additional District & Sessions Judge, Meerut thereto stand quashed qua the appellants herein. … The appeal is allowed in the aforesaid terms.
Judgment, 11 and 11.2
In brief
Appellant No.1 married the complainant in 2008; a daughter (the prosecutrix) was born in 2009. The complainant left the matrimonial home in 2011, leaving both children in the custody of the appellants (husband, mother-in-law, sister-in-law and brother-in-law), and the parties thereafter filed over ten civil and criminal cases against each other. In September 2024 — four months after the prosecutrix left the appellants' house and came into the complainant's custody, and after fourteen years of litigation in which no sexual misconduct had ever been alleged — the complainant filed a POCSO complaint alleging that appellant No.1 and appellant No.4 had raped the girl, that appellant Nos.2 and 3 beat and abused her, and that appellant No.3 inserted a hammer handle into her vagina.…
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