THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.9611 of 2022

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This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.2 to 4 seeking to quash the criminal proceedings against them in C.C.No.6100 of 2020 on the file of the learned V Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Ranga Reddy District at L.B.Nagar. The offences alleged against the petitioners are under Sections 498-A, 417, 406, 506 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’) and Sections

3, 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (for short ‘the Act’).

02. Heard Sri H.Venugopal, learned Senior Counsel representing Sri S.Amarender Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners-accused Nos.2 to 4, Sri Molepeddi Srinivas Reddy, learned counsel for Respondent No.2 and Smt.S.Madhavi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the State-respondent No.1. Perused the record.

03(a). In brief, the case of the prosecution is that the marriage between accused No.1 and the victim was solemnized on 16.03.2017. After the marriage, the victim joined the matrimonial home at Hastinapuram to lead a conjugal life. On 26.03.2017, both the victim and accused No.1 traveled to the United States of America (USA). Initially, they lived happil