Criminal miscellaneous petition dismissed. The petitioners sought quashing of FIR No. 32 of 2024 dated 04.12.2024, Women Police Station Hamirpur, under Sections 85, 115(2), 316(2) and 351 of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and of the consequential proceedings pending before the learned Judicial Magistrate First Class-III, Hamirpur, asserting that the informant's dowry-harassment complaint was false, vague and a counterblast to petitioner No.1's Section 9 Hindu Marriage Act restitution petition. Deciding the petition per the parameters laid down by the Supreme Court (B.N. John; Ajay Malik; Bhajan Lal categories), the Court held that the FIR showed the specific role of each petitioner — the offer of Rs. 50 lakh and cars, pressure to settle a police case through a local politician and to procure a transfer, humiliation, beatings and harassment, and removal of the informant's clothes and jewellery from her almirah — so the allegations were neither vague nor omnibus and cognizance could be taken. Falsity of the allegations could not be examined at the quashing stage (Punit Beriwala); no mini-trial is permissible under Section 482 CrPC (Maneesha Yadav; Dharambeer Kumar Singh; Muskan); delay in reporting is not a ground to quash (Punit Beriwala; Skoda Auto Volkswagen referred therein); and the chargesheet having been filed, the trial court should be left to appreciate it (Iqbal). Petition dismissed; observations confined to disposal of the petition, with no bearing on the merits.
