Petition for quashing of the criminal case has to be filed in the high court which has jurisdiction over the area where such criminal case has been filed / is pending. Since as per your question, the case is pending in Sonipat in Haryana, the petition to quash such case can be filed in Punjab and Haryana High Court in Chandigarh and not in Delhi high court. Merely because you and your family reside in Delhi or because your wife lived with you in Delhi earlier, cannot be a ground to file this case in Delhi high court, if the criminal case is itself registered in Haryana. Of course, if you feel that the case could not have been registered in Sonipat (Haryana) due to the reason that the offence did not occur at that place, you can make that also a ground for quashing the case, but the petition for quashing will still have to be filed in Punjab and Haryana high court.
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