2025 (2) TMI 989

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....kriti Shakuntala Gupta, Ms. Akshita Mishra, Ms. Simranjeet Kaur and Ms. Shivika Chaddha, Advocates. For the Respondents Through: Mr. Kanav Vir Singh, Senior Panel Counsel with Ms. Avshreya Pratap Singh Rudy, Advocate for R-1. Mr. Indruj Singh Rai, SSC, Mr. Sanjeev Menon, JSC, Mr. Rahul Singh, JSC with Ms. Anmol Jagga, Mr. Gaurav Kumar and Ms. Varsha Sharma, Advocates for R-2. JUDGEMENT TU....

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.... taking all her belongings and valuables, and filed a police complaint in Agra, Uttar Pradesh on 13.06.2024. Subsequently, FIR No. 238/2024 came to be registered by the police. It is claimed that thereafter, the respondent no. 3 filed a complaint at Delhi alleging that respondent nos.3 to 6 gave Rs.2 crores as dowry and simultaneously spent crores of rupees at the wedding. 3. Ms. Shobha Gupta, ....

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....District, Saket Court, New Delhi. Learned counsel submits that in view of the clear admissions made by the respondent no. 3 in the said complaint as well as the suit filed by her, the respondent nos.1 and 2 are duty bound to investigate whether respondent nos. 3 to 6 reported significant income as well as the alleged funds spent on dowry and paid taxes on their annual ITRs for financial years 2021....

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....be within the purview of the Income Tax department to adjudicate. Similarly, such disputed questions of facts also cannot be adjudicated under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. Learned counsel has also been unable to indicate the provision under which such a complaint has been submitted to the Income Tax department. Clearly, the complaint was not under a statutory scheme or a regulatory me....