THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.633 of 2024

O R D E R

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-

accused Nos. 2 to 4 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.119 of 2019 on the file of JFCM Mobile (PCR)-cum-I Additional Junior Civil Judge, Adilabad District. The offences alleged against the petitioners are under section 498-A, 323, 506 read with section 34 of IPC and Sections 3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act (for short ‘The Act’).

2. Heard Sri D.Surakshit Rao, learned counsel for the petitioners-accused Nos.2 to 4, Sri T.Srujan Kumar Reddy, learned counsel for respondent No.2 and Sri M.Ramachandra Reddy, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Perused the record.

3. In brief, the case of the prosecution is that accused Nos. 2 is father in law and A3 is mother in law and A4 is brother in law of the respondent No.2. The marriage of the respondent No.2 with the son of the petitioners No.2 and

3 was performed on 14.06.2012 by giving dowry of Rs.3,00,000/- cash, 1 tula of gold and motor cycle to the husband of respondent No.2. After marriage her husband harassed her physically and mentally to bring 3 lakhs additional dowry