JUDGMENT :

ANIL KUMAR CHOUDHARY, J.

1. Heard the parties.

2. This criminal miscellaneous petition has been filed invoking the jurisdiction of this Court under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. with the prayer to quash the entire criminal proceeding including the order dated 23.11.2022 passed by the learned Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Dhanbad in connection with Complaint Case No. 2627 of 2019 whereby and where under, the learned Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Dhanbad has found prima facie case against the petitioners for having committed the offences punishable under Sections 323, 406 and 498A of the Indian Penal Code.

3. The fact of the case is that the petitioner no.1 is the father-in-law, petitioner no.2 is the mother-in-law, petitioner no.3 is the brother- in-law and petitioner no.4 is the wife of the petitioner no.3. The allegations against the petitioners are that after the death of the husband of the complainant on 07.08.2011 in a road accident, the petitioners perpetrated mental and physical cruelty upon the complainant by telling that because of the birth of her daughter, her husband died and further told that if she lives in their house, all the inmates of the house will die. There wa