THE HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.11788 OF 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner-accused No.1 seeking to quash the proceedings against him in C.C.No.6417 of 2019 on the file of learned XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Nampally, Hyderabad, registered for the offences under Sections 498A and 406 of I.P.C. and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.

2. Heard Sri Shaik Mahammad Hussen, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri C. Sharan Reddy, learned counsel for respondent No.2.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner and respondent No.2-de facto complainant got married in the year 2011 and that subsequently, the present complaint has been lodged just to harass the petitioner herein. He further submitted that the de facto complainant has not taken any steps to revoke the divorce pronounced on 04.05.2017, but she has come up with the present complaint. He further submitted that the petitioner and de facto complainant are blessed with two children and that the de facto complainant travelled twice to India and back to Saudi Arabia. He further submitted that the petitioner has already pa