THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.8813 of 2022

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This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.2 to 4 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.3043 of 2021 on the file of the learned II Additional Junior Civil Judge-cum-II Additional Metropolitan Magistrate at Malkajgiri. The offences alleged against the petitioners are under Sections 498-A, 504 read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’) and 3, 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (for short ‘the Act’).

02. Heard Sri P. Ravi Kiran, learned counsel for the petitioners-accused Nos.2 to 4 and Smt.S.Madhavi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the State-respondent No.1 as well as Sri T. Sasi Kumar, learned counsel for 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 daughter of the respondent No.2 was solemnized on 13.08.2014. They lived happily for some years and blessed with two children. The accused No.1 used to leave his job frequently. The accused No.1 with the instigation of the accused Nos.2 to 7 started harassing her physically and mentally by demanding to