The applicants, relatives of the husband (brother-in-law, his wife, and sister-in-law) of the complainant Halima, sought quashing of FIR No. C.R. I-18/2016 registered at Dariyapur Police Station, Ahmedabad, for offences under Sections 376, 377, 498-A read with Section 114 IPC and Sections 3 and 7 of the Prevention of Dowry Act. The complainant alleged dowry demands, cruelty, forcible sexual intercourse, and unnatural acts by her husband and his family members after their 2011 marriage. The applicants contended that the FIR was a counterblast filed after the husband pronounced Talaq on 04.04.2016, and that the complainant had threatened to implicate them following an incident on 20.03.2016. The Gujarat High Court, relying on Supreme Court precedents in Dara Lakshmi Narayana v. State of Telangana (2024) and Archin Gupta v. State of Haryana (2025) 3 SCC 756, noted that merely naming family members without specific allegations of active involvement amounts to abuse of legal process. Proceedings against Applicants 1 and 2 (father-in-law and mother-in-law) stood abated due to their deaths, and the Court proceeded to decide the matter on merits in the absence of the complainant's advocate.