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Dear Client,
Your first priority should be anticipatory bail. Apply under Section 482 BNSS covering all three of you, without waiting for an FIR to be registered. Given your parents’ ages and your father’s heart condition, this cannot be delayed. For offences punishable up to seven years, the police must issue a notice under Section 35(3) BNSS rather than arrest automatically.
Secondly, your timeline also helps. She left on 17 May, you filed under Section 10 on 6 July, and her complaint came only on 24 September. Courts do take note of that sequence, so prepare a dated chronology with proof of when and how she left, along with messages, call records, photographs, travel records, and the names of anyone who can confirm what happened.
Attend the mediation with your advocate, since refusing looks bad on record. Admit nothing and sign no undertaking at the police station. On the arms allegation, do not invite a search yourself, If a search does happen and finds nothing, that record will help you.
Expect a maintenance claim under Section 144 BNSS or the Domestic Violence Act, so keep your income documents ready, if an FIR is eventually registered naming your parents without attributing any specific role to them, you can move the High Court to quash it under Section 528 BNSS.