JUDGMENT :

Prayer: Petition filed praying that in the circumstances stated therein and in the Affidavit filed therewith the High Court may be pleased to quash the proceeding in D.V.O.P. No.11 of 2021, on the file of the Judicial Magistrate Court No.I, Tirunelveli.

1. This Petition has been filed under Article 227 of the Constitution of India for quashing the proceedings in D.V.O.P. No.11 of 2021 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate No.I, Tirunelveli, in so far as the Petitioners herein are concerned.

2. The Petitioners are Parents-in-law of the Respondent herein. The marriage between the Petitioners' son and the Respondent was solemnized on 30.1.2019 and a girl child was also born through the wedlock. The marital life of the Respondent came under strain leading to filing of D.V.O.P. No.11 of 2021. In the said Petition, the Respondent herein had arrayed her husband as the First Respondent, the Petitioners herein as the Respondents 2 & 3 and her brother-in-law and wife of brother-in-law as the Respondents 4 & 5. Contending that the institution of D.V.O.P. is an abuse of legal process, this Petition has been filed.

3. Though this Petition was filed as early as on 17.3.2021, the