ORDER :

The petitioners/accused Nos.1 to 3 are before this Court calling in question proceedings in C.C.No.15166 of 2020, pending before the XXX Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Bengaluru, arising out of Crime No.15 of 2020, registered for offences punishable under Sections 498A r/w. 34 of the IPC and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961.

2. Heard Sri M.R.C. Manohar, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner, Smt. K.P. Yashodha, learned High Court Government Pleader for respondent No.1 and Sri K.S. Karthik Kiran, learned counsel appearing for respondent No.2.

3. The facts in brief, as projected by the prosecution, are as follows:

The 1st petitioner is accused No.1 and 2nd and 3rd petitioners are accused Nos.2 and 3. The 2nd respondent is the complainant. The 1st petitioner is the husband of the complainant. The 1st petitioner and the complainant get married on 18.12.2019. The marriage between the 1st petitioner and the complainant turned sore immediately after marriage. The complainant stayed with the husband in the matrimonial house only for 28 days. Venting out various grievances, the complainant walks out and seeks to register two proceedings – one setting the cr