Heard Mr. S.A. Mohta, learned counsel for the applicants; Mr D.B. Yengal, learned APP for respondent No.1 and Mr. S.I. Jagirdar, learned counsel for respondent No.2.

2. Rule, returnable forthwith. With the consent of respective learned counsel, the matter is taken up for final disposal

3. By this application under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 ( in short “ the Code”) the applicants pray for quashing and setting aside the FIR No.253/2010 dated 13th March 2010 reported at Old City Police Station, Akola for offence punishable under sections 307, 498A, 504 read with section 34 of the Indian Penal Code ( in short “ IPC”).

4. The facts in nutshell are these:-

On 13.9.2010 Mrs Aliya Afrin w/o Faisal Sohail Khan lodged FIR No. 253/2010, in which the first informant alleged that she had tied the knot with Faisal Sohail Khan, ten months prior to the incident. She was residing jointly along with her husband, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law etc. According to the first informant, she was constantly harassed by her husband and his near relatives for some reason or the other. When she became pregnant, her husband and in-laws insiste