( 1 ) THIS Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of Criminal Procedure Code to quash the proceedings in CC. No. 87/2001 on the file of the XXII Metropolitan Magistrate: Cum: Mahila Court, Hyderabad. The petitioners herein are the accused against whom a charge sheet is filed for the offence under Section 498-A of Indian Penal Code for subjecting Smt. D. Manisha Reddy to cruelty who is the wife of the 1st petitioner and daughter in law of the 2nd and 3rd petitioners.

( 2 ) THE facts in brief of the prosecution are as follows: - On 17/10/2000 at 11-10 hrs Banjara Hills P. S. Hyderabad City received a telephone message from Apollo Hospital, Jubilee Hills, that one patient by name Smt. D. Manisha Reddy, D/o. D. K. Samarasimha Reddy R/o. Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, has been admitted in the hospital in an unconscious state alleged to have swallowed 30 tablets of 0. 5 mg Aparazorom "restyle" at her residence at 6-00 p. m. and on that information the Sub Inspector of Police rushed to the Apollo Hospital and found Manisha Reddy but he could not record her statement as she was in an unconscious state and in deep sleep. The Duty Medical Officer also endorsed on the Medico