THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.4175 of 2022

O R D E R

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.2 to 4 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in S.C.No.137 of 2021 on the file of Assistant Sessions Judge, Mancherial. The offences alleged against the petitioners are under Sections 498-A, 506, 313 read with 34 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 Kondadi Ajay Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioners-accused Nos.2 to 4 and Smt.S.Madhavi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the State. There is no representation on behalf of the 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 respondent No.2 was solemnized on 09.05.2018. On 19.02.2019 respondent No.2 gave birth to a baby girl and she led marital life happily for three months. Later her husband started harassment by saying that if he married someone else he would get more dowry and the accused No.1 with the instigation of the accused Nos.2 to 4 started harassing her physically and mentally by demanding