THE HON’BLE SMT.JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.1 to 3 seeking to quash the proceedings in SC No.655 of 2024 on the file of Special Court for the trial of SC/ST (PoA) Act, 1989 cum VII Additional District and Sessions Judge, Ranga Reddy District at L.B. Nagar, for the offences under Sections 323, 420, 498(A), 504, 506 IPC and Section 3 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (for short ‘DP Act’) and 3(1)(r)(s) and 3(2)(va) of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 2015 (for short ‘SC & ST Act’)

2. Heard Sri Mir Mukarram Ali, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondent No.1-State.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that the petitioners herein are the husband and in-laws of the de facto complainant and that they never harassed her at any point of time. He further submitted that though the complaint was lodged against accused Nos.1 to 7, the case against accused Nos.4 to 7 was proved wrong during the course of investigation and thus, the charge sheet was laid only against accused Nos.1 to 3 i.e. petitione