COMMON ORDER

These petitions have been filed to quash the FIR in Crime No.5 of 2021 dated 26.03.2021, registered by the first respondent for the offences under Sections 498A, 406, 342, 294(b), 323, 506(i) of IPC, as against the petitioners.

2. The case of the prosecution is that the defacto complainant viz., the second respondent herein is the wife of the first accused and the petitioners are the in-laws of the second respondent. The first accused and the second respondent got married on 28.08.2020 and during their marriage, the parents of the second respondent presented gold jewels and other house hold articles. Even thereafter the first accused demanded huge dowry and insofar as the petitioners are concerned, they scolded the second respondent with filthy language and abused her. It is also alleged that from the date of marriage, the first accused on the instructions of the other accused harassed the defacto complainant by physically and mentally. On the complaint lodged by the second respondent, the first respondent registered the above case as against the petitioners and others.

3. Heard Mr.V.P.Raman, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner, Mr.A.Gopinath, learned Government