ORDER :

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short “Cr.P.C”)seeking quash proceedings in C.C.No.380 of 2018 on the file learned I Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Visakhapatnam registered for the offences punishable under Sections 498-A, 341, 323, 506 r/w 34 of IPC.

2. The petitioner herein is accused No.1 and husband of the de facto complainant/2nd respondent in the above C.C.No.380 of 2018. The 2nd respondent is the de facto complainant

3. The case of the 2nd respondent is that, the marriage of the petitioner and the 2nd respondent was performed on 09.02.2000 at Sarada Kalyana Mandapam, Visakhapatnam as per Hindu Rites and Caste Customs and they were blessed with male child in the year 2001. In the interregnum period, the 2nd respondent suffered with psychological problem and did not join the petitioner though the matter was placed before elders and thereafter both of them filed cases against one another before various courts. On 08.11.2015 at 09.00 hrs., the complainant lodged a report with the police against the petitioner alleging that in March-2015 the family court issued orders that Rs.10,000/- should be paid to the