IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
Criminal Miscellaneous No.33820 of 2015
Arising Out of PS. Case No.-763 Year-2010 Thana- VAISALI COMPLAINT CASE District-
Vaishali
1. Nilkanth Singh @ Laddu Singh @ Nilkanth Kumar Singh son of
Late Narendra Narain Singh
2. Supriya Singh wife of Nilkanth Singh Both 1 and 2 are resident
of Village- Nakash, P.S.- Sonepur, District- Chapra
… … Petitioner/s
Versus
1. The State of Bihar
2. Rina Singh wife of Rakesh Kumar Singh, resident of Village- Shambhupur
Koari, P.S.- Sarai, District- Vaishali.
… … Opposite Party/s
Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Rajiv Prashant, Advocate
For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. T.P.Mandal(App)
CORAM: HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE
ORAL JUDGMENT
Date : 18-04-2018
Seeking quashing of the order dated 27.7.2010 passed in
criminal complaint bearing Complaint Case No.763(C) of 2010
passed by the learned S.D.J.M., Hazipur at Vaishali taking
cognizance against the appellant under Sections 498A, 323, 406 of
I.P.C. and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, this application
has been filed for quashing of the proceedings.
Respondent No.2 the complainant is the wife of
Rakesh Kumar Singh and has filed the complaint petition in
question against her husband Rakesh Kumar Singh, his father
Shashi Singh and his mother Poonam Singh and has also
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implicated the present applicant as accused No.5 and 6. The
present applicants Nilkanth Singh @ Laddu Singh @ Nilkanth
Kumar Singh and Supriya Singh are the brother-in-law and sister-
in-law of the complainant respectively and they are staying
separately from the family.
On a perusal of the complaint available from page 9
of the record, it is seen that in para 1 of the complaint general
allegations, omnibus in nature, have been made to say that at the
time of marriage all the accused persons demanded dowry, but
due to intervention of the people present there, the matter was
resolved and the marriage was solemnized. Thereafter from para
2 onwards, general allegations of demand of dowry are made
against the husband, mother-in-law and father-in-law for demand
of car and dowry. However, with respect to the present
applicants, no specific allegations are made. Even it is not
mentioned in the application as to when they came to the house
of the husband of the respondent No.2, stayed with them and how
and in what manner they committed the offence in question. It is
a case where the entire family has been roped in by making
general and omnibus allegation. Specific allegations are made
only against the husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law who
were staying with the complainant. So far as the present
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applicants are concerned, they are not staying with the
complainant. They are staying separately and only general and
omnibus allegations are levelled against them.
Keeping in view the law laid down in the case of Gian
Singh vs. State of Punjab, (2012) 10 SCC 303, Taramani Prakash
v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2015) 11 SCC 260, Amit Kapoor v.
Ramesh Chander, (2012) 9 SCC 460 and Kans Raj vs. State of
Punjab, (2000) 5 SCC 207, this application is allowed. The
complaint, so far as it pertains to the present applicants, is
quashed. The complaint may proceed against the husband, mother-
in-law and father-in-law in accordance with law.
(Rajendra Menon, CJ)
K.C.Jha/-
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