THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.5039 of 2022

O R D E R

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner-accused No.3 seeking to quash the proceedings against him in C.C.No.775 of 2021 on the file of the learned I Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate at Jagtial. The offences alleged against the petitioner are under Sections 498-A of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’) and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (for short ‘the Act’).

02. Heard Sri Karam Chendu Komireddy, learned counsel for the petitioner and Smt.S.Madhavi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the State-respondent No.1. No representation on behalf of the unofficial respondent No.2.

Perused the record.

03. In brief, the case of the prosecution is that the marriage of the accused No.1 with the respondent No.2 was solemnized on 03.06.2017. They lived happily for a period of two months. The accused No.1 with the instigation of the accused Nos.2 to 5 started harassing her physically and mentally by additional demanding and necked out the respondent No.2 from matrimonial house. Hence, the respondent No.2 filed the present case for the alleged offences.

04. Learned counsel for petitioner s