( 1 ) THIS petition is directed against the order darted 23-2-1979 passed by the metropolitan Magistrate (IV Court) bangalore City in C. C. No. 474 of 1979 ordering that the custody of the child - maqsood Ali Khan - be given to the respondent (complainant ). Respondent, who is the complainant before the trial Court, is incidentally the wife of the first petitioner. The complainant filed a complaint before the trial Court under S. 200 of the code of Criminal Procedure against her husband -A1 - (1st petitioner herein), her mother-in-law and two sisters-in- law, A-2 to A-4 respectively (respondents 2 to 4 herein) alleging that they have committed offences punishable under Ss. 339, 340, 342, 344, 346 and 361 i. P. C. In short the averments are that she married A-1 on 18-7-1976 and thereafter she lived with A-1 and the other accused at Bangalore. Out of the said wedlock a male child by name maqsood Ali Khan was born to her through Al on 6-11-1977. After sometime she along with her husband (Al) took up a separate residence at No. 780, Indiranagar First Stage, Bangalore and lived there happily. She has alleged that her husband has always been prone to violence and was ill-treating her fro

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