JAMMU, May 5 -- The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has quashed FIR No. 96/2023 registered at Police Station Baramulla under Sections 376, 342 and 506 IPC against petitioner Shoiab Lone, holding that the case presented exceptional circumstances where continuation of criminal proceedings would serve no meaningful purpose.
Justice Mohd. Yousuf Wani, while allowing the petition filed under Section 482 CrPC, now corresponding to Section 528 BNSS, observed that the allegations in the complaint dated May 13, 2023 appeared doubtful in view of earlier complaints made by the complainant before Police Stations Rajbagh Srinagar and Kreari Baramulla, wherein she had allegedly described herself as the wife of the petitioner.
The petitioner ha...