G.S.Chahal, J.

1. Dr. Ashwani Kumar Juneja and others have come to this court in this criminal miscellaneous under section 482, Code of Criminal Procedure for quashing of the complaint dated 6-8-1988, Annexure P-1, pending in the Court of the Judicial Magistrate I Class, Ludhiana for offences under sections 406, 498-A, Indian Penal Code and also the subsequent proceedings on the basis thereof.

2. According to the averments made in the impugned complaint, Smt. Aruna Kumari is the wife of Ajay Kumar, petitioner-5. She was married to him on 27-11-1986. The marriage was performed at Pathankot. At the instance of the accused persons, it was agreed that the articles of Istridhan shall be banded over to them at Ludhiana. The articles of dowry were then handed over to different accused persons, as detailed in paragraph 1 of the complaint, with the clear understanding that these constituted Istridhan and would be handed over to her on reaching the matrimonial home. In the matrimonial home, her mother-in-law Smt. Satya Devi gave one set of gold each to Anita, Neelam and Shashi Bala and when she objected to it, she was told tauntingly that she had no business to object to the same. No