Dr. Sudha Bhattarcharya v. State Govt. Of NCT Of Delhi & ANR

ig C-'30 $--36&10 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(CRL) 1470/2011 & CRL.M.A. 1277/2015 Petitioner DR. SUDHA BHATTARCHARYA versus Respondents STATE GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR W.P.(CRL) 1471/2011 & CRL.M.A. 1278/2015 + Petitioner DR. KASTURI MUKHOPADHYAY versus STATE GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR .....Respondent Through: Mr Mohit Mathur, Mr Indranil Ghosh and Mr Samiron Borkataky, Advocates for petitioners.

Mr Vinay Jaidka, Advocate for R-2 with R-2 in person.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SIDDHARTH MRIDUL

ORDER

% 09.04.2015 The present are writ petitions under Article 226 of the Constitution of India read with Section 482 CrPC, 1973 praying for quashing of FIR .

No.174/2011 under Sections 420/468/469/471/355/356/34/120B IPC read with Section 3 of the SC & ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 registered at Police Station- Vasant Kunj (North) and the proceedings emanating therefrom. The facts in brief are that the complainant who was a Ph.D. student with the Jawaharlal Nehru University complained of harassment at the hands of petitioners, who are her professors inter alia because she belongs to a backward community. The said complaint fructified into the registration of the subject FIR. Subsequently, with the intervention of this court in WP(C) No.1599/2011 By:AMULYA

(Poonam Kanaujia v. Jawaharlal Nehru University & Ors.), the disputes between the parties have been resolved. The complainant has been permitted to complete her education and has in fact been awarded a Ph.D. Degree. Counsel for the petitioners undertakes that they shall provide the complainant with the requisite recommendation required by the latter to publish her papers within a period of two weeks from today. Counsel for the parties, therefore, urge that no useful purpose shall now be served by proceeding with the subject FIR. Consequently, since the dispute arising out of the misunderstanding between the complainant and her professors has been settled amicably, no useful purpose shall be served by proceeding with p the subject FIR and the proceedings emanating therefrom. In the circumstances, the FIR No.

174/2011 under Sections 420/468/469/471/355/356/34/120B IPC read with Section 3 of the SC & ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 registered at Police Station- Vasant Kunj (North), Delhi, and the proceedings emanating therefrom are hereby set aside and quashed qua the petitioners. The writ petitions are disposed of accordingly. Pending applications also stand disposed of Dasti.

SID ARTH MRIDUL, J APRIL 09, 2015 mk