India, Oct. 30 -- The Delhi High Court has quashed a 17-year-old attempt to murder case against academic and activist Madhu Kishwar, calling it a "maliciously motivated counterblast" to a case she had filed earlier against the complainant's family.

The FIR, registered by Delhi Police in 2008, accused Kishwar under sections 307 (attempt to murder), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation), and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code. It stemmed from a complaint by the Basoya family, which alleged that Kishwar had instructed her driver to run them over with a car during a dispute over the alleged allotment of shops in Sewa Nagar Model Market on December 31, 2007. The complainant, Mahipal Basoya's mother, had also ...