REPORTABLE 2024 INSC 369 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 2379 OF 2024 (ARISING OUT OF SLP (CRL.) NO. 4912 OF 2022) ACHIN GUPTA ……APPELLANT VERSUS STATE OF HARYANA & ANR. ……RESPONDENT(S) J U D G M E N T J. B. PARDIWALA, J.: 1. Leave granted. 2. This appeal arises from the judgment and order passed by the High Court of Punjab & Haryana dated 05.04.2022 in the Criminal Main No. 14198-2022 (CRM-M-14198-2022) filed by the Appellant herein (sole accused in the chargesheet) by which the High Court rejected the petition & thereby declined to quash the chargesheet dated 13.10.2021 for the offences punishable under Section 323, 406, 498A and 506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short, the “IPC”) arising from the First Information Report No. 95 of 2021 lodged by the Page 1 of 36Respondent No. 2 (wife of the Appellant) at the Urban Estate Hisar Police Station, District Hisar. FACTUAL MATRIX 3. The FIR dated 09.04.2021 reads thus: - “1. That the