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Ranjana Rawat v. State of Hp

Himachal Pradesh HC2 Sept 2025CRMPM/2152/2025

Case brief

AI extract

What is this about?

Anticipatory-relief application under Section 482 BNSS; notice under Section 179 BNSS; apprehension of arrest; Police Station Rohru, District Shimla; no FIR registered; unfounded apprehension, no relief granted; complaint by Gudiya @ Pallavi regarding mobile phone; toll free number 112; Domestic Violence Report to CDPO; CDRs of mobile No. 7807264218; application disposed of; observations confined to disposal.

What did the court decide?

Since no case/FIR is found to have been registered against the applicant, her apprehension of arrest is unfounded and no relief can be granted to her. ¶29

Ranjana Rawat Vs State of Hp — Domestic Violence | Himachal Pradesh HC (2025)

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AT SHIMLA

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Cr. MP(M) No. 2152 of 2025 Decided on : 2.9.2025

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Ranjana Rawat State of H.P.

Versus

…Applicant

…Respondent

Coram

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Virender Singh, Judge Whether approved for reporting?

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________________________________________________ For the Applicant : Mr. Vaibhav Singh Chauhan, Advocate.

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For the Respondent : Mr. H.S. Rawat, Additional Advocate General. Virender Singh, Judge (oral)

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The applicant has filed the present

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application, under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (hereinafter referred to as ‘the BNSS’) with the apprehension that she may be arrested in some FIR, by pleading that police authorities have issued notice under Section 179 of BNSS to her, requiring her to appear before the Investigating Officer. The said notice, as per the averments made in the application,

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have duly been complied with. She has further pleaded that she has been called by the Police, again and again.

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On the basis of above facts, a prayer has been made to direct the Police/IO of Police Station, Rohru, District Shimla to release her on bail, in the event of her arrest, in connection with the complaint, pending with Police Station, Rohru, District Shimla, H.P. 3. When, put to notice, the Police has filed the status report, disclosing therein, that on 21.8.2025, Ranjana Rawat (applicant) has moved a complaint, before the Police, disclosing therein that her husband had left the home with a lady namely Gudiya @ Pallavi, upon which, Police found the husband of the applicant, alongwith one lady, namely, Gudiya @ Pallavi, in the private vehicle of husband of applicant, at Police Post, Shoghi, who has expressed that he is on his way to Chandigarh to drop his friend Pallavi.

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As per the status report, the applicant has also levelled the allegations against her husband that he used to beat her and with the connivance of the

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aforesaid lady, he is pressurizing her to obtain divorce.

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Upon this, on the complaint of Ranjana Rawat (applicant), both the parties were called to Police Station, Rohru, on 22.8.2025, for counselling. However, solution to solve their family problems, could not be found.

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On 25.8.2025, Ranjana Rawat (applicant)

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made a complaint, under the provisions of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, upon which, the Domestic Violence Report was prepared and the same was submitted to the CDPO. However, on 25.8.2025, aforesaid lady, namely, Gudiya @ Pallavi, about whom, Ranjana Rawat (applicant) had made the complaint,

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informed the Police, through Toll free number 112, alleging against Ranjana Rawat (applicant) that she had taken away her mobile phone, upon which, on 26.8.2025, Ranjana Rawat (applicant) was summoned to the Police Station. Cosequently, the applicant appeared before the Police and stated that mobile phone of Pallavi is not with her.

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Thereafter, CDRs of said mobile phone No. 7807264218 were obtained. However, the said mobile phone was found to be switched off since 21.8.2025. Thereafter, service provider of the aforesaid mobile number has again been requested to provide CDRs of the aforesaid number.

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Lastly, it has been submitted in the status report that no case has been registered against the applicant.

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On the basis of above facts, Mr. H.S. Rawat, learned Addl. A.G., has prayed that since, no case has been registered against the applicant, as such, the present applicant is liable to be dismissed.

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Considerating the factual position, as mentioned in the application, and the fact that when no case is found to have been registered, against the applicant, on the basis of unfounded apprehension, no relief can be granted to the applicant.

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