It would not quash the FIR as this was not a fit case for the court to interfere, it added.The woman’s father-in-law, mother-in-law and sister-in-law had sought quashing of the 2022 FIR registered against them in Jalna district of Maharashtra for alleged cruelty, harassment and criminal intimidation.As per the complainant, she got married in 2019 and had a daughter in 2020. But the husband and his family members started demanding money from her parents and abused her physically and verbally, she claimed.In May 2022, the woman was allegedly thrown out of the matrimonial house and not allowed to take her daughter with her. She then filed an application before a magistrate’s court seeking her daughter’s custody.In 2023, the court ordered the husband to hand over custody of the child to the mother, but the order was not complied with and the child continues to remain with the husband, the woman stated in the high court.The bench noted that although the child was with the husband, the applicants (in-laws) were assisting him by keeping his whereabouts secret.Those who do not have respect for judicial orders are not entitled to relief, the high court remarked.The trio in their petition denied the allegations of cruelty and harassment, and claimed to have been implicated in a false case.
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