THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.8811 of 2023

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This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.2 and 3 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.889 of 2022 on the file of XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Nampally, Hyderabad. The offences alleged against the petitioners are under Sections 498-A, 506 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’) and section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (for short ‘the Act’).

02. Heard Mr.C.Haripreeth, learned counsel for the petitioner-accused Nos.2 and 3, Sri Syed Ahmed Ali, learned counsel for respondent No.2 and Smt.S.Madhavi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the State. Perused the record.

03. In brief, the case of the prosecution is that accused Nos.2 and 3 are the in laws of the respondent No.2. The marriage of the respondent No.2 with the son of the petitioners was solemnized on 21.07.2003 as per Christian rites and customs, though respondent No.2 belongs to Muslim community, which is a love cum arranged marriage. After marriage, respondent No.2 joined the company of her husband at Hyderabad and lived happily for a couple of days. Thereafter accused Nos.1