PRADEEP TRIPATHI Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS
LAWS(ALL)-2007-5-446
HIGH COURT OF ALLAHABAD
Decided on May 14,2007

Pradeep Tripathi Appellant
VERSUS
State of U.P. and others Respondents




JUDGEMENT

Amitava Lala, J. - (1.)This writ petition is made for the purpose of quashing the First Information Report (hereinafter called as F.I.R.) registered under case Crime No. 49 of 2005 under Sections 498-A/304-B, I.P.C. lodged on 24th Feb., 2006 by the respondent no.4 at Police Station Nawabganj, District, Kanpur Nagar and not to arrest the petitioner or take any action against the petitioner on the basis of such F.I.R. along with incidental prayer in connection thereto.
(2.)In brief, facts of the case is described herein. The petitioner and the daughter of respondent no.4 were happily married couple. A male child was born by their wedlock. The petitioner is socially and financially well established. There is no question of any harassment by the petitioner to his wife i.e. the daughter of respondent no.4 after marriage. But when sister of the wife became widow and wanted to adopt the petitioner's son, quarrel took place. In the morning of the fateful day i.e. on 31st Jan., 2006 when the petitioner left the house after exchange of words, he got a telephone call that his wife out of irritation took poison and the condition is deteriorating. He came back and hospitalized his wife, but she could not survive.
(3.)An F.I.R. was lodged after about 24 days from the date of occurrence just to pressurise the petitioner to hand over the child to the sister of the petitioner's wife as desired by the petitioner's wife in the suicide note. The F.I.R. is totally baseless. There is no iota of material evidence. No such relationship arose between him and his wife during the tenure of marriage, which can lead to a situation of committing suicide.


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