Harmohinder Kaur Sandhu, J. - The petitioners have filed the present petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for quashing first information report Annexure P/1 registered against them and resultant investigation against them under section 406, 498-A and 506 Indian Penal Code, the same being abuse of process of the Court.

2. The brief facts of the case are that petitioner No. 1 was married to Smt. Sneh Lata in month of May, 1990. The relations between the husband and wife did not remain cordial and Sneh Lata lodged a report against the petitioners at police station Mohali, District Ropar on 6-12-1991 on the allegations that at the time of her marriage her father spent money according to his status but her in-laws who were greedy persons started maltreating her for not bringing refrigerator, scooter and T.V. etc. She was compelled to bring cash from her parents and was subjected to beating. Once her father arranged Rs. 10,000/- and gave to her husband and his father Mohan Lal to run a Dhaba, but in August 1990 she was again given beating by her sister-in-law Raj Rani, Nirmal and Sunita and mother-in-law Krishna. Her mother-in-law brought a vessel of keros