THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION Nos.2548 & 3288 of 2022

COMMON ORDER

These Criminal Petitions are filed by the petitioners-

accused Nos.2 to 5 to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.12323 of 2019 on the file of the learned XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Nampally, Hyderabad. The offences alleged against the petitioners- accused Nos.2 to 5 are under Sections 498-A, 406 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’) and 3, 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (for short ‘the Act’).

02. Heard Sri M.Ram Mohan Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners-accused Nos.2 to 5 and Sri D.Sudharshan, learned counsel for the unofficial respondent No.2 as well as Smt.S.Madhavi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the State-respondent No.1. 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 19.06.2003. Thereafter, the accused No.1 used to treat the respondent No.2 as a slave and with the instigation of the petitioners-accused Nos.2 to 5, accused No.1 used to harass her physically and mentally. The respondent No.2 and her family members were made to believe t