R. Bhattacharya, J.:- These three applications arise out of a Sessions Trial in the Court of the 11th Additional Sessions Judge at Alipore, 24 Parganas where several charges have been framed against the petitioners by the learned Judge after hearing the parties under S.228 of the Cr. P.C., 1973. The petitioners have come up to this Court for quashing the proceedings under S.482 of the new Code.

2. Briefly stated, the prosecution case is that one Surupa Guha was married to the accused Indranath Guha in 1966. After about a year of the marriage, there had been continued ill treatment towards Surupa from her husband Indranath, her father-in-law Satikanta Guha and her mother-in-law Pritilata Guha and such ill treatment at times became unbearable to her. On 4-5-1976 at about 10 or 10-15 a.m. Surupa came back home at 10, Hindusthan Road, Calcutta from the Science College Laboratory where she used to go for her research work. Thereafter she was given some food viz., cucumber and lassi by the servant of her house Jhantu, the accused. She took the food and subsequently she started vomiting and became seriously unwell. At about 11 a. m. the family physician came and as the condition o