ORDER

This Criminal Original Petition has been filed seeking to quash the charge sheet in C.C. No. 25 of 2021 on the file of learned Judicial Magistrate-I, Kallakurichi.

2. Heard both sides.

3. The petitioners are ranked as A2 to A12 in the F.I.R. in Crime No.23 of 2021 registered for the offence under Sec.498(A), 294(b), 494, 109 of I.P.C. and Sec.4 of Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act, 2002. Subsequently, the charge sheet has been filed and the same was taken on file in C.C.No.25 of 2021 on the file of Judicial Magistrate-I, Kallakurichi and the same is pending. Now, the petitioners have filed this petition praying to quash the said charge sheet.

4. The case of prosecution is that the defacto complainant is the 2nd respondent, who is wife of A1 viz., Thangeswaran. According to her, on 18.03.2017 she got married with A1 and she gave birth to a female child in the year of 2019. In the meanwhile, there was a matrimonial dispute between them and at the instigation of family members, they were reunion and a child was born. When she went to her parents house for delivery, after some time, she came to know that her husband got married with 1st petitioner herein as second ma