JUDGMENT :

This criminal petition under Section 482, Code of Criminal Procedure, (1973) (‘the Code’ and/or ‘the CrPC’, for short) is directed against the criminal proceeding in Sessions Case no. 126(N)/2015, presently pending before the Court of learned Sessions Judge, Nagaon, Assam.

2. In order to appreciate the nature of challenge, it deems proper to narrate the relevant background facts which have emerged from the records of Sessions Case no. 126(N)/2015 and this criminal petition.

2.1. The respondent no. 2 (hereinafter also referred to as ‘the informant’, at places, for easy reference) had lodged a First Information Report (FIR) on 02.09.2014 before the Officer In-Charge, Nagaon Sadar Police Station against 3 (three) persons as accused. The petitioner no. 1 was named as accused no. 1 whereas the petitioner no. 2 and the petitioner no. 3 were named as accused no. 2 and accused no. 3 respectively. The accused no. 2 and accused no. 3 are the father and the mother respectively of the accused no. 1.

2.2. In the FIR so lodged, the informant had, inter-alia, alleged that the accused no. 2 and the accused no. 3 offered a proposal of marriage for their son i.e. the accused no. 1, who was ag