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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 5440 OF 2024 [@ SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRL.) NO. 7529 OF 2024]
VASANTI SHRIRAM MAINKAR & ORS. Appellant(s)
VERSUS
THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA & ORS. Respondent(s)
O R D E R
Leave granted.
The appellants before this Court are husband
(Appellant No. 2), motherinlaw (Appellant No. 1) and
the sisterinlaw (Appellant No. 3) of Respondent No. 2 –
Nandita Mandar Mainkar.
The marriage of Appellant No. 2 and Respondent
No. 2 was solemnized on 09.07.2012 and after some
time, marital discord occurred between the parties. We
have been informed at the Bar that the parties are living
separately since 2016.
In the meanwhile, an FIR has been lodged against
the appellants on 10.05.2019 under Sections 498, 313,
323 read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code and the date
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has an important bearing inasmuch as a few days prior
to that, i.e. on 06.05.2019, the appellant had initiated
Divorce proceedings against the respondent by filing a
suit for Dissolution of Marriage before the Family Court
at Pune. Therefore, apparently, the criminal
proceedings initiated at ...