A. Shankar Narayana, J.

The present petition is filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for short, ‘the Code’) requesting to quash the proceedings in C.C. No.38 of 2016 on the file of Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Kavali, SPSR Nellore district.

2. The petitioners are arraigned as accused Nos.4 and 5 in the aforesaid calendar case. They alleged to have committed the offences punishable under Sections 498-A of IPC and under Sections 3 & 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.

3. Heard Sri Unnam Muralidhar Rao, learned counsel for the petitioners, and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State of Andhra Pradesh.

4. The learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that the 2nd petitioner is a Government employee and initially the de facto complainant also reported against brother-in-law and wife of brother-in-law as accused Nos.6 & 7, who are living in Singapore, like the petitioners herein, and the investigating officer, while filing charge-sheet having found from the evidence he collected, they did not come to India since the date of marriage of accused No.1 with the de facto complainant from Singapore, deleted their names. It is, theref