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IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD
JUVVADI SRIDEVI
Waseem Saife – Appellant
Versus
State of Telangana, rep. by Public Prosecutor – Respondent
ORDER :
JUVVADI SRIDEVI, J.
This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.1 to 9 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.791 of 2022 on the file of the learned II Additional Junior Civil Judge-cum-IX Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class at Medchal. The offences alleged against the petitioners are under Sections 498-A, 420, 504 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’) and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (for short ‘the Act’).
02. Heard Ms.Meghana Addla Suneel, learned counsel for the petitioners-accused and Sri M.Ramachandra Reddy, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Even after service of notice, none appeared on behalf of the respondent No.2. Perused the record.
03(a). In brief, the case of the prosecution is that, in the year 2013, the petitioner-accused No.1 was introduced to the respondent No.2 through common friends and represented that he was working as an Interior Designer with “Figure-3 Company”, Madhapur. In December 2013, the respondent No.2 commenced an interior designing enterprise under the name “Esha Interior Company”, operating from her residence, and thereafter engaged the petitioner-accused No.1 a
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