ORDER :

1. This petition is filed by petitioners /Accused Nos.1 and 2 seeking to quash the entire criminal proceedings in C.C.No.8792/2015 pending on the file of the IX Addl. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Bangalore, for the offences punishable under Sections 498A read with Section 34 of the IPC and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961.

2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners / Accused Nos.2 and 3, learned counsel for Respondent No.2 / complainant and the learned HCGP for the State.

The petitioners herein / Accused Nos.2 and 3 are the father-in-law and mother-in-law respectively of the second respondent / complainant namely Smt. Shruthi Antapnal.

3. It transpires from the case of the prosecution that the complaint was filed by the complainant – Smt. Shruthi Antapnal, the second respondent herein alleging that she had married one Mukund Ramprasad and their marriage was performed on 30.11.2008 at Bangalore as per the customs prevailing in their society. Immediately after marriage, she began residing with her husband at her matrimonial home. But however, after marriage, it is stated that her husband and in laws started illtreating her and were causing intolerable m