ORDER :

JUVVADI SRIDEVI, J.

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.3 and 4 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in S.C.No.110 of 2024 on the file of the learned Principal District & Sessions Judge, Hanumakonda, registered for the offence under Section 304B of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’).

02. Heard Sri A. Prabhakar Rao, learned counsel for the petitioners-accused; Sri M.Ramachandra Reddy, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State-respondent No.1 and Sri V. Venkat Ram Narsaiah, learned counsel for the respondent No.2. Perused the record.

03(a). The brief facts of the prosecution case are as follows: The complainant-respondent No.2 is the father of Revuri Niharika Reddy (hereinafter referred to as “the deceased”). The deceased was married to the accused No.1. The accused No.2 is the mother of the accused No.1; the petitioner-accused No.3 is his sister; and the petitioner- accused No.4 is the husband of the petitioner-accused No.3. The marriage of the deceased with the accused No.1 was solemnized on 14.08.2021 at Paradise Function Hall, Kazipet, in the presence of elders. At the time of marriage, it is alleged that, pursuant to the dema