THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.8976 of 2023

O R D E R :

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner-accused No.1 seeking to quash the proceedings against him in C.C.No.3711 of 2020 on the file of the learned XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Hyderabad, registered for the offence under Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’).

2. Heard Mr. Dokka Mohan Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mrs. S.Madhavi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent No.1-State and Sri Arava Sri Latha, learned counsel for respondent No.2. Perused the record.

3. Brief facts of the case are that the petitioner-accused No.1 is the husband of the respondent No.2–de facto complainant and their marriage was solemnized on 04.05.1992 and that the petitioner-accused No.1 is working as a Police Constable at Kalwakurthy Police Station, and out of the wedlock, they were blessed with two children. It is further alleged that about eight months prior to the filing of the complaint, the respondent No.2 came to know that the petitioner-accused No.1 had contacted a second marriage with the help of his parents without obtaining a