ORDER

Date : 10.09.2024 Heard Mr. A.Y Choudhury, learned counsel for the petitioners. Also heard Mr. G. Uddin, learned counsel for the respondent.

2. This is an application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. praying for quashing the proceeding against the petitioners in connection with M.R.(D.V.) Case No. 163/2022, pending in the court of learned JMFC, Hailakandi.

3. The brief facts of the case is that the respondent/wife filed a case under Section 12 of Protection Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (herein after D.V. Act) before the learned CJM, Hailakandi vide M.R.(D.V.) Case No. 163/2022 against her husband and the present petitioners. On 26.06.2017, the marriage between the respondent and her husband took place. After their marriage, they lived together as husband and wife and out of their wedlock, one child was born. It was alleged that after the birth of their female child, the respondent's husband, who had previously an affair with another woman, fell in love with her again. At the instigation of the petitioners, the husband began to torture the respondent, demanding Rs. 2,00,000 and pressurizing her to obtain the said money from her parental home. As the parents of the respondent f