THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.1874 OF 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner – accused seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.248 of 2024 on the file of the learned Special Magistrate of I Class (Mobile) for Trial of Cases under PCR Act – cum – IV Additional Junior Civil Judge, Khammam, registered for the offences under Sections 498-A and 506 of the Indian Penal Code (for short “IPC”) and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 (for short “DP Act”).

2. Heard the submissions of Sri Nooty Vasishta Venkateswarlu, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for respondent No.1 – State.

3. The learned petitioner counsel has submitted that the petitioner herein has filed a divorce OP, subsequent to which, the present complaint is filed as an afterthought just to harass the petitioner. He further submitted that if really the petitioner has harassed the de facto complainant, she should have lodged the complaint much earlier but not as a counter blast. Hence, there is no truth in the allegations leveled by the de facto complainant, therefore, prayed to quash the pro