JUDGMENT - PATEL J.N., J.:---By this petition under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, the Petitioner Smt. Neeta Sanjay Tadage, challenge the order dated 3-3-1994 passed by the learned Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Court No. 5, Thane, below Exh. 60, allowing composition of offences between the parties registered under section 498-A read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code, which is annexed as Exh. F to the petition.

2. The Petitioner married Sanjay, son of Respondent No. 1 and brother of Respondent No. 2 at Dhulia. After their marriage, she started residing at Thane with her husband, who is gainfully employed in the Police Department as Police Constable. Soon after the marriage, the Petitioner realised that the Respondents Nos. 1 and 2 were out to harass her and they started treating her with cruelty by putting her under restrains and even subjected her to starvation. She was not allowed even to write any letter to her parents at Dhulia without being censured by them. It is also alleged that the Respondents even went to the extreme end of levelling false insinuations about her character and in all these, the Petitioner's husband did not take any initiative to improve the si

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