1. The petitioners who are father and son are arrayed as accused in case pending trial in C.C. No.1622 of 2010 on the file of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Egmore, Chennai, seek quash of proceedings against them. In such case, they stand charged of offences u/s. 506(i) IPC and 4 of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act, 1998. The offence u/s.506(i) IPC is said to be attracted, since these petitioners caused alarming obnoxious e-mails threatening kidnapping by hiring goondas to harm and rape the defacto complainant’s daughters. On allegations of causing untold hardship and mental harassment by means of obnoxious and threatening e-mails received by the defacto complainant, of the first petitioner not having shown any interest in having a normal marital relationship with his wife, who is the daughter of the defacto complainant, of subjecting her to huge embarrassment and mental torture by casting aspersions of her not being capable of having normal marital relationship and of her being mentally unsound and inept and harassing her to undergo medical tests, charge u/s.4 of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act, 1998 is made.

2. The defacto