Shimla, Oct. 23 -- The Himachal Pradesh high court has granted interim protection from coercive action to a serving Indian Statistical Service officer in a criminal case registered at Solan Sadar police station on a complaint by her mother-in-law, amid a matrimonial dispute involving her husband, who was serving as superintendent of police, Solan, at the time.

The court, in an order dated October 16, directed the state not to take coercive action against the woman officer in the FIR registered on May 18, 2025, under Sections 305, 331(3), 351(2) and 352 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

The officer had approached the high court seeking the quashing of the FIR and consequential criminal proceedings. The petition alleges that the case ...