Kamal vs State Of Gujarat 2025 INSC 504 - S. 482 CrPC -Quashing Power- Matrimonial Disputes

Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 - Section 482 -In matters arising from matrimonial disputes, particularly where the allegations are levelled after many years of marriage and, that too, after one party initiates divorce proceeding against the other, the Court must be circumspect in taking the allegations at their face value. Rather, it must examine, where allegations of mala fides are there, whether those allegations have been levelled with an oblique purpose. More so, while considering the prayer of the relatives of the husband. (Para 13)