THE HONOURABLE SMT JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.11908 OF 2023

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This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners, who are arrayed as the accused Nos.1 to 6, seeking to quash the criminal proceedings initiated in C.C.No.797 of 2022 vide impugned cognizance order dated 27.04.2022 passed in Criminal Miscellaneous Petition No.59 of 2022 in Crime No.159 of 2019 on the file of the learned III Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class-cum-III Additional Junior Civil Judge, Khammam.

02. Heard Sri Dammalapati Srinivas, learned Senior Counsel representing Pillix Law Firm, appearing on behalf of the petitioners; Smt.S.Madhavi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing for the State-respondent No.1; and Sri M.V.Hanumantha Rao, learned counsel appearing for the unofficial respondent No.2. Perused the record.

03(a). In brief, the case of the complainant-respondent No.2 is that she is a practicing Advocate and her husband runs a book stall and bookbinding business and they are blessed with three children. The complainant’s family consists of her father Pulipati Narisimha Rao, her mother Bharathi, elder brother Pulipati Prasad i.e. the petitioner- accused No.1, and