498A AQUITTAL OF WARRIOR FROM ALLAHABAD FROM AMBALA COURT
It gives us immense pleasure to share the Success Story of Sahodar warrior Ravi Chaudhary from Allahabad, this story encapsulates acquittal of whole family in 498A case after a rigorous legal fight of 7 years (2012 till 2019) with about more than 85 travels and an average travel of about 1700 kms (to and fro) per date.
STORY IN THE WORDS OF THE WARRIOR:
It was in year 2010 – 2013 when I was posted at Dist. Mau UP on my job and living only with my wife there. The incidence is of Feb 2012 when my estrange wife left the home accompanied with our 2.5 months old son, without informing anyone and when I was out of station to appear for GATE 2012 exam. My paternal family comprises of only me and my Mother as my Father has been passed away and I have no siblings. Then wife registered the case u/s 498A, 406, 323, 504 & 506 IPC at Dist Ambala where police arrested me and my mother from Dist. Mau UP and took us on transit remand to Dist Ambala, Haryana. There Hon’ble Judiciary issued bail to my mother instantaneously and I was given bail after 6 days which I spend in police custody.
The charges were framed and the case then started as per judicial procedure with me and my mother’s to and fro travel of about 2200 km initially and later 1700 km (when I was transferred fromMau to Allahabad). In mean time Hon’ble Punjab & Haryana High Court directed the parties for mediation but non compromising attitude and more than extra ordinary demands of wife resulted of failure of mediation in year 2014. Then case again started on merit and prosecution recorded their statements. Entire prosecution took about 4.5 years to record their statements and cross examination. After 3 years ie in year 2015, Hon’ble Court allowed the exemption of personal appearance of my Mother in court until unless ordered by court further. Then at the time of defense I myself also appeared as Defense Witness and recorded my statements on oath. Although prosecution tried their best to oppose so that I cannot appear as self defense witness before court but Hon’ble Court rejected this application of prosecution and allowed me to record statements on oath u/s 315 CrPC. After the closure of all defense evidences (this was after 1 year of the closure of the prosecution evidence) and cross examining them thereby finding that relevant documentary proofs has been submitted against prosecution, the prosecution again filed application u/s 311 CrPC to put more documents on file and this application of prosecution was also rejected by Hon’ble Court.
Then the final arguments has been advanced by both parties and the result has came in clear acquittal of all the accused (me and my Mother) in May 2019 ie after a long battle of 7 years where Hon’ble Court was pleased to quote that “prosecution has miserably failed to establish the guilt of the accused for the offence” in her detailed Judgment of 80 pages which is clear enough to explain the atrocities faced by the family of husband on false, frivolous and fictitious story portrayed by the estrange wife. The Ld. defense counsel has also been appreciated by the Hon’ble Court in her Judgment.
It was a long journey of average 1700 kms travel per trip to attend Court dates and from year 2016 till 2019 it was more or less 2 travels per month. In mean time during the trial of this case I had qualified CAT with 95.5 percentile and hence pursued MBA PG degree from NIT Allahabad by qualifying the final merit list of institute as Rank 1st for academic year 2013-2015. A quest for study makes me to go for research work and during this legal trial, till date 5 of my research work has been published in various nation & international conferences and in journals, including one research paper in a crime and criminology journal.
The faith of mine on almighty as well as on Indian judicial system has remained intact. May God bless all those who are with Truth.
Footnote:
PRAISE FROM THE WARRIOR
As a part of Sahodar team where I am a member of different WhatsApp groups of Sahodar, I can pay my thanks to the admin Sahodar who let me introduce with various members through WhatsApp group where we share our stories & problems and then we received helpful solution from fellow mates.
Numerous citations and judgments from superior courts are also received on this platform which are used to decide the strategy of this legal battle and would have never been possible without the help and part of team Sahodar.
Ravi is always eager to help any victim of 498a in his capacity and he can be reached at +91-7800469389 or on his email ravichaudhary.sms.mnnit@gmail.com
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