JUDGMENT :

RAJNESH OSWAL, J.

1. The present petition has been filed by the petitioners under section 561-A Cr.P.C. (now 482 Cr.P.C.) for quashing of proceedings arising out of criminal complaint, titled, Arti Thusoo vs. Sanjay Thusoo and Others under sections 498-A and 406 RPC pending before the court of Forest Magistrate, JMIC, Jammu (hereinafter to be referred as the trial court) and order dated 06.04.2016, by virtue of which the learned trial court has issued process against the petitioners.

2. It is stated in the petition that the petitioners are the senior citizens and have been wrongly arrayed as accused in the aforesaid complaint. It is stated that they are not in contact with their son, Sanjay Thusoo for the past more than fourteen years and are unaware of his whereabouts. Son of the petitioners had a job in Delhi and it was in 2002, that he came to the petitioners with a proposal of going abroad to take up a job in Australia but the petitioners did not agree as they did not want that their son to go out of the country. Due to this, there was exchange of words between the petitioners and their son and as a result which, he left the home in extreme anger and since then, the pet