UP: HC refuses to quash FIR against man accused of posting nude pictures of wife on WhatsApp

The Allahabad High Court (File | EPS) By Express News Service LUCKNOW: The Allahabad High Court refused to quash an FIR against a man who was accused of posting nude pictures of his wife on WhatsApp. While hearing a criminal miscellaneous writ petition, the division bench, comprising Justice Pankaj Naqvi and Justice Vivek Singh Thakur, refused to quash the FIR saying that merely because the petitioner was the husband of the informant (wife) in the case, it did not constitute a valid ground to quash the FIR against him. The bench had made the observations last week which were uploaded on court’s website on Friday. The man was booked under Section 67 of the IT Act and the court said that prima facie the allegations of offence were made out as much as there was specific allegation of putting nude pictures of the informant on WhatsApp. In fact, the petitioner had filed the plea urging the court to direct authorities concerned to quash the FIR registered against him under Sections 270, 313,323, 376D, 34 IPC and Section 67 of IT Act. The petitioner had urged the court to direct the respondent (police) to not to arrest him during course of…
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