HC refuses to quash FIR against man booked for assaulting live-in partner

“There is more than sufficient material on record to show clear complicity of petitioner in present crime and prima facie prosecution has made out a strong prima facie case,” the court observed.

A division bench of Justice Ajey S Gadkari and Justice Shivkumar G Dige on June 5 passed an order on a plea by 31-year-old man from the city, challenging the FIR of June, 2018 which booked him for offences punishable under Sections 354-B (assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to disrobe), 506 (criminal intimidation), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the IPC.

According to the prosecution, the marriage between the petitioner and the victim was decided to be performed in June-July 2018 with the consent of their family members The victim was residing at the petitioner’s house along with his mother since May 19, 2018.

Four days later, the petitioner abused the victim and she went to her mother’s house. Thereafter, the accused man went to the victim’s mother’s house and tendered an apology and took her back to his house.

On May 25, he consumed liquor and started bickering with the victim, assaulted her and thigh and banged her head on the wall, tore her T-shirt and threatened her.

The prosecution further said that the victim somehow rescued herself from the clutches of the petitioner and came to the ground floor of the building and informed about the assault to the watchman and also narrated the same to her friend.