THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.11111 of 2024

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This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner-accused No.2 to quash the proceedings against her in C.C.No.3364 of 2024 on the file of the learned III Additional Junior Civil Judge-cum-III Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Rangareddy District at LB Nagar. The offences alleged against the petitioner-accused No.2 are under Sections 498- A of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’) and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (for short ‘the Act’).

02. Heard Sri Veera Babu Gandu, learned counsel for the petitioner-accused No.2 and Sri M.Ramachandra Reddy, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State- respondent No.1 as well as Ms. R. Sandhya, learned counsel representing Sri Nageswar Rao Pujari, learned counsel for the unofficial respondent No.2. Perused the record.

03. In brief, the case of the prosecution is that the marriage between the accused No.1 and the respondent No.2 was solemnized on 06.06.2023 before the Registrar and was subsequently celebrated in a traditional manner on 18.11.2023. Thereafter, the accused No.1 left for the United Kingdom with an assurance to t