THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.2743 of 2024

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This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.2, 4 to 6 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.146 of 2022 on the file of the learned I Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate at Gadwal, Jogulamba Gadwal District. The offences alleged against the petitioners are under Sections 498-A of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’) and 3, 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (for short ‘the Act’).

02. Heard Sri P.Animi Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners-accused Nos.2, 4 to 6 and Smt.S.Madhavi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the respondent No.1-State. Though the notice sent to the respondent No.2, the respondent No.2 has refused to receive the same and there is no representation on behalf of respondent No.2 either in person or through counsel, as such, this Court after recording her absence proceeded to dispose of the present matter on merits.. Perused the record.

03. Brief facts of the case are that the marriage of accused No.1 with respondent No.2 was solemnized on

28.07.2017. They lived happily only for about three months. Thereafter, they shifted to Hyder