1. Both these quash petitions have been filed by the Petitioners who are arrayed as Respondents 4 and 5 in C.C.No.6578 of 2013, pending on the file of the X Metropolitan Magistrate, Egmore, Chennai, filed by the second respondent herein under Section 12 of the Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005. Since both these petitions are filed against the same C.C.No.6578 of 2013, they are taken up together and common order is passed.

2. The complaint had been filed against seven persons and the petitioner in Crl.O.P.No.10011 of 2014 was impleaded as 4th respondent and the petitioner in Crl.O.P.No.7187 of 2014 was impleaded as 5th respondent in C.C.No.6578 of 2013. The persons, who are impleaded as respondents by the 2nd respondent/ complainant are her mother-in-law S.Kasthuri, brothers-in-law T.C.Badrinath and T.C.Ravindranath, younger brother of the father-in-law of the 2nd respondent/complainant T.K.Srinivasan, sister-in-law T.K.S.Bharathi, elder brother of the father-in-law T.K.Krishnan and the younger brother of the father-in-law of the 2nd respondent/complainant T.K.Suriaprakash.

3. The averments in the complaint lodged by the 2nd respondent / complainant is that s