THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.5372 of 2022

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This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.1 and 2 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.7219 of 2021 on the file of the learned XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACM), Manojanran Complex, Gandhi Bhavan, Hyderabad. The offences alleged against the petitioners are under Sections 498-A, 406, 420, 506 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’) and 3, 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (for short ‘the Act’).

02. Heard Smt.D.Pramada, learned counsel, representing Sri D.Devender Rao, learned counsel for the petitioners and Smt.S.Madhavi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the State-respondent No.1. Personal notice taken out by the learned counsel for the petitioners to the respondent No.2 was returned with an endorsement ‘no such person’. Hence, this Court directed to take out personal notice to the respondent No.2 through her counsel before the learned trial Court, for which, the learned counsel for the petitioner sent personal notice to the respondent No.2’s counsel through WhatsApp on 15.04.2025 and filed a screenshot copy of the same vide Memo in