As per case facts, the complainant's wife found a love letter from the petitioner's daughter. The petitioner then allegedly visited the complainant's house, denied authorship, and during an altercation, abused, ... threatened, and assaulted him, causing simple injuries. An FIR was lodged, and a charge-sheet filed. The petitioner, a civil servant, sought to quash these proceedings, claiming the allegations were false, malicious, and stemmed from a family property dispute, arguing that Section 296 BNS was inapplicable as the incident occurred privately. The question arose whether the allegations, even if taken at face value, prima facie constituted the alleged offenses and if continuing the proceedings would be an abuse of process given the private setting and family dispute. Finally, the High Court found that continuing the proceedings was an abuse of process. It ruled that Section 296 BNS requires a 'public place', which was not the case here, and that the proceedings emanated from an inter-se family dispute with an ulterior motive. Thus, the Court quashed the FIR and all consequential proceedings to prevent unnecessary harassment and miscarriage of justice.