Bengaluru: The
high court
has quashed one of the first FIRs registered in the state on July 1 after the new criminal laws kicked in, as it had been done under the old Criminal Procedure Code (
CrPC
).
The court, however, directed police to register a new FIR based on the same complaint in which a woman had accused a man of raping and cheating her on the promise of marriage as the allegations were serious and merited an investigation.
A nurse working in a govt Hospital lodged a rape and cheating complaint on
July 1, 2024
, with Lingsugur police against a D group govt employee. The same was registered under IPC. She claimed the accused, who helped her when her husband met with an accident, promised to marry her but sexually assaulted her on June 24, 2021, and also did not return the Rs 13.5 lakh amount he had taken from her. The FIR was registered under Section 154 of the CrPC for the offences punishable under Sections 376, 323, 506, and 420 of the IPC.
Challenging the same, the accused argued that since the complaint was registered on July 1, 2024, it should have been under
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Samhita
(BNSS
