THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.2595 of 2022

O R D E R

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.2 to 5 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.191 of 2022 on the file of I Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate, at Nizamabad. The offences alleged against the petitioners are under Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’) and section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (for short ‘the Act’).

02. Heard Sri P.Sri Harsha Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners-accused Nos.2 to 5, Sri C.Sharan Reddy, learned counsel for respondent No.2 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.2 was solemnized in the year 2021. After 10 days of her marriage they terminated the maid in the house, due to which respondent No.2 used to clean the house and cook the food.

Accused No.1 along with other family members harassed her physically and mentally and also to get additional dowry. Hence, the respondent No.2 filed the present case for the offences under Sections 498-A of