New Delhi, Oct 29, 2025

The Delhi High Court has quashed a 17-year-old attempt to murder case lodged against social activist and academic Prof. Madhu Kishwar, observing that the FIR appeared to be a “maliciously motivated counterblast” to an earlier case that had resulted in the complainant’s conviction.

Allowing the petition filed by Prof. Kishwar under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), a single-judge Bench of Justice Amit Mahajan held that continuing the criminal proceedings registered at K.M. Pur Police Station for offences under Sections 307, 323, 506, and 34 of the Indian Penal Code would amount to “an abuse of the process of the court.”

Justice Mahajan observed that the 2008 FIR filed by the complainant was a retaliatory move against an earlier case lodged by P

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