THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No. 2311 OF 2024

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘the CrPC’), seeking quashment of the proceedings against the petitioners in C.C. No. 2573 of 2021 on the file of the learned I Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Kothagudem, Bhadradri-Kothagudem District.

2. The petitioners are arrayed as accused Nos.1 to 5 in the Calendar Case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 498-A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961.

3. I have heard Mr.L.Harish, learned counsel for the petitioners, Mr.Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, representing respondent No.1-State. No representation on behalf of respondent No.2.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the disputes between the petitioners and respondent No.2 were amicably resolved, culminating in the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between petitioner No.1 and respondent No.2 on 10.10.2023. Pursuant to this settlement, respondent No.2 withdrew D.V.C. No. 90 of 2022, and both petitioner No.1 and re