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IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD
JUVVADI SRIDEVI
Siripanga Sanjeeva – Appellant
Versus
State of Telangana, represented by its Public Prosecutor – Respondent
ORDER :
JUVVADI SRIDEVI, J.
This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.1 to 5 seeking quashment of the proceedings against them in C.C.No.21 of 2023 pending on the file of the learned Principal Junior Civil Judge, Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri District at Bhongir. The offences alleged against the petitioner-accused No.1 are under Sections 498-A, 506 and 494 of the Indian Penal Code (for short, “IPC”) and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (for short, “the Act”), while the accused Nos.2 to 5 are alleged to have committed offences punishable under Sections 498-A, 506 and 494 read with Section 109 of IPC and Section 4 of the Act.
02. Heard Sri Veera Babu Gandu, learned counsel for the petitioners, Ms.Saleha Begum, learned Legal Aid counsel for the respondent No.2 and Sri M.Ramachandra Reddy, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State-respondent No.1. Perused the record.
03. In brief, the case of the prosecution is that the marriage between the petitioner-accused No.1 and the respondent No.2 was a love marriage solemnized on 06.02.2008, and they were blessed with two children. It is alleged that thereafter the accused No.1 developed an illicit relationship with accuse
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