THE HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION Nos.11980 and 12020 of 2025

ORDER:

These petitions are filed seeking quashment of the C.C.No.4627 of 2024 on the file of learned III Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Ranga Reddy District at L.B.Nagar, against the petitioners/accused Nos.2, 3, 5 and 6.

2. Heard Mr.M.Krishna Chaitanya, learned counsel for petitioners and Smt.Shalini Saxena, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent No.1-State.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the petitioners are the in-laws of the de facto complainant. He further submitted that the petitioners have never harassed the de facto complainant, and that there are no specific overt acts attributed to them, nor any specific allegations sufficient to attract the offences under Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short, ‘IPC’), and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 (for short, ‘DP Act’). He further submitted that the petitioners never had an occasion to reside with the de facto complainant, nor did they have any intention to harass her. He, therefore, prayed to quash the proceedings against the petitioners.

4. Lear