THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.361 of 2022

O R D E R :

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. by the petitioners-accused Nos.1 to 7 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.8712 of 2021 on the file of the V Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad at L.B. Nagar, pertaining to Crime No.313 of 2021 of W.P.S. Saroornagar, registered for the offences under Sections 498-A and 506 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’) and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 (for short ‘the Act’).

2. Heard Ms. Seema Yasmeen, learned counsel representing Mr. C.Vikram Chandra, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mrs. S.Madhavi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent-State. No representation on behalf of respondent No.2.

Perused the record.

3. The petitioner-accused No.1 is the husband of de facto complainant. The petitioners-accused Nos.2 to 5 are the parents and married sisters of petitioner-accused No.1. The petitioners-accused Nos.6 and 7 are the husbands of petitioners-accused Nos.4 and 5.

4. The gist of the complaint is that the marriage of petitioner-accused No.1 was performed with th