PANKAJ BHATIA Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND ORS.
LAWS(P&H)-2015-3-190
HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA
Decided on March 18,2015

PANKAJ BHATIA Appellant
VERSUS
State Of Haryana And Ors. Respondents


Referred Judgements :-

GIAN SINGH VS. STATE OF PUNJAB [REFERRED TO]
NARINDER SINGH VS. STATE OF PUNJAB [REFERRED TO]


JUDGEMENT

Tejinder Singh Dhindsa, J. - (1.)THIS order shall dispose of Crl.Misc.No.M -33830 of 2014 (Pankaj Bhatia v. State of Haryana and another) and Crl.Misc.No.M -1598 of 2015 (Rafiq alias Sedur v. State of Haryana and another).
(2.)BOTH these petitions have been filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for short 'the Code') seeking quashing of FIR No. 142 dated 18.4.2014, registered under Sections 306, 363, 370 -A of the Indian Penal Code and Section 23 of Juvenile Justice (Care & Protection of Children) Act, 2009, Section 24 of the Child Labour Act and Sections 3, 33(89) of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 at Police Station Saran, District Faridabad on the basis of settlement/compromise.
The deceased is Moti Murmu who is stated to have committed suicide on 13.4.2014. The impugned FIR was registered on the statement of mother of the deceased, namely, Hasda Khichlia. The complainant had stated that she was a resident of the State of West Bengal but for the last 4 -5 months she was working as a maid in Delhi. Her daughter Moti Murmu (deceased) was studying in a school in the village in West Bengal. Allegations are that Rafiq (petitioner in Crl.Misc.No.M -1598 of 2015) who runs Laxmi Placement Agency, Tuglak, Delhi, had allured her daughter and brought her to Delhi and employed her in the house of Pankaj Bhatia (petitioner in Crl.Misc.No.M -33830 of 2014) at Faridabad. Complainant alleged that she was not in the knowledge of her daughter having been brought to Delhi and the Placement Agency had not taken her permission for doing so. It was further stated that Moti Murmu (deceased) was a minor and as such, could not have been employed to work as a maid. Complainant further stated that she got information as regards her daughter having committed suicide by hanging herself on 13.4.2014, from Police Station Saran, Faridabad and she placed responsibility of the same on the Placement Agency as also the persons with whom deceased had been employed as a maid.

(3.)THIS Court has been apprised that after completion of investigation, the challan already stands presented.


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