ORDER :

1. This Criminal Petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short “Cr.P.C.”) is filed seeking quash of proceedings in C.C. No.6198 of 2018 on the file of the learned II Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Vijayawada.

2. The petitioners are A-2 to A-5 in the above C.C. No.6198 of 2018 on the file of the learned II Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Vijayawada.

3. Heard Sri S.Bala Mohan Ranga, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Soora Venkata Sainath, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

4. The 2nd respondent is the de facto complainant. She is the wife of A-1. She lodged a report with the police alleging that A-1 and the petitioners herein, who are A-2 to A-5, who are the parents of A-1 and sister of A-1 along with A-5, who is the elder of the marriage, subjected her to physical and mental cruelty by making illegal demands of dowry. On the basis of the said report, a case in Crime No.23 of 2018 was registered in Women Police Station, Vijayawada City, for the offences punishable under Sections 498-A, 506 IPC and under Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961. The crime was investigated and eventually havi