THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.8458 of 2022

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This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.2 to 7 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.613 of 2022 on the file of Judicial First Class Magistrate, at Siddipet. The offences alleged against the petitioners are under Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’) and sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (for short ‘the Act’).

02. Heard Sri P.Prabhakar Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners-accused Nos.2 to 7, Sri D.Raghavulu, learned counsel for respondent No.1 and Smt.S.Madhavi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the State. Perused the record.

03. In brief, the case of the prosecution is that the marriage of the accused No.1 with the respondent No.1 was solemnized about 12 years ago. During the wedlock she gave birth to a female child. Ever since the marriage of the 1^st respondent, her husband used to harass her physically and mentally and the petitioners herein instigated her husband. In that connection several panchayaths were held and in the panchayath her husband was reprimanded and inspite of it he did not mend his ways. It is