O R D E R

The petitioner herein is the defacto complainant. The allegation found in the complaint, which culminated in filing of the final report in C.C.No.5800 of 2011 is that the daughter of the petitioner got married to one C.Sathyanarayanan on 18.02.2008. The married couple settled in Australia but later had a dispute leading to filing of a divorce petition at the instance of the wife, alleging that there was huge dowry demanded before marriage and after marriage by the husband and his family members. The prosecution has proceeded against the respondents herein, who are the son-in-law of the petitioner, his father, brother and son.

2. The Additional Public Prosecutor has taken out an application to receive additional documents in support of the prosecution. The trial Court, after considering the nature of the document, dismissed the application except for one document, which appears to be the compromise memo entered between the parties, pending investigation of the complaint. As far as the rest of the 27 documents, the trial Court had observed that most of those documents are subsequent to the complaint and not relevant to the case. Further, they were not collected by the Invest