JUDGMENT - S.S. DANI, J. :---Rule returnable forthwith. Heard Shri Mandlik, advocate for the petitioners and Shri Bhapkar, A.P.P., for respondents Nos. 1 and 2.

2. This writ petition is directed against an order dated 30th of December 1991 passed by the Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Degloor in Criminal Case No. 114 of 1990 rejecting the application for permission to compound an offence under section 498(A), Indian Penal Code.

3. Petitioner No. 1 Radhabai is the wife of petitioner No. 3 Petitioner No. 6 is the mother in-law of the petitioner No.1. Petitioners No. 2, 4, 5 and 7 are the near relations of petitioner No. 3. After the marriage, petitioner No.1 Radhabai started residing with her husband and other petitioners. Petitioner No.1. then alleged that the petitioners No. 2 to 7 (who are accused Nos. 1 to 6 before the trial Court) ill-treated petitioner No. 1 during the period from 31-10-1989 to 19-6-1990 and they also assaulted her and threatened her during this period. It was alleged that the ill-treatment, assault and threats were there, because of the failure on the part of the parents of petitioner No. 1 to pay the dowry. Petitioner No.1 was then driven out of the house an

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