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Delhi HC: The Delhi High Court has quashed a 17-year-old attempt to murder case against academician Madhu Kishwar, noting that the FIR was a maliciously motivated counter blast for wreaking vengeance.

The high court said setting the criminal law machinery in motion only for the reason that the complaint discloses commission of cognisable offence would be an abuse of the process of the court.

“Even if the allegations of the complainant are taken at the highest, considering the complainant’s conviction in a case arising out of same incident, the same can at best be considered as a self-defence or an altercation at the stage when the complainant has formed an unlawful assemble and caused injuries to the petitioner (Kishwar) and another person when they were carry

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