Cruelty FIR Not Quashed; Allegations Against Mother-in-Law Who Died 23 Years Ago Appear to Be Typographical Error: Punjab & Haryana High Court
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has dismissed a petition seeking quashing of a criminal case relating to matrimonial cruelty, holding that a mere typographical or inadvertent reference to a deceased mother-in-law in the First Information Report cannot, by itself, be a valid ground to terminate criminal proceedings at the threshold. The judgment was delivered by Justice Alok Jain, reiterating that an FIR must be read as a whole and…
