THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.5824 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 C.C.No.308 of 2022 on the file of I Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate at Jagityal. 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.Mahesh Babu, 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 his behalf of respondent No.2. Perused the record.

03. In brief, the case of the prosecution is that on

25.10.2021 she performed love marriage with her friend i.e. accused No.1 and as the parents of her husband refused to their love marriage, they lived separately by leaving their parents. After marriage she lived separately only for ten days. After that with the instigation of the accused Nos.2 to 4, accused No.1 started harassing her physically and mentally by demanding additional dowry from her parents. On 21.10.2021, accused No.1 be