ORDER

1. This petition under section 482 of the CrPC has been preferred for quashment of the proceeding of the Criminal Case No. 389/2018 pending before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Punasa, District Khandwa under section 498A read with section 34 of the IPC.

2. The facts giving rise to this petition are that the marriage of the respondent No. 2 with applicant No. 1 was solemanized on 31.5.2017, and applicant No.2 is brother of the applicant No. 1, and applicant No.3 is mother of the applicant No. 1 and applicant No.4 is grand mother of the applicant No. 1 and applicant No. 5 is sister of the applicant No.1 and after the marriage, the accused persons started harassing the respondent No.2 in connection with demand of dowry and on provokation and support of them for aforesaid demand of dowry, the applicant No. 1 used to beat her and on account of aforesaid harassment. About the aforesaid act of the applicants she told her parents and brother and sister on phone and thereafter the applicant No. 1 send her with her brother to her parental house and not prepared to keep her in the materimonial house without fulfillment of the demand of dowry. On 28.10.2018 the respondent No.