THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.1719 of 2023

O R D E R

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.2 to 6 seeking to quash the criminal proceedings against them in C.C.No.3696 of 2020 on the file of the learned V Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class at Warangal. The offences alleged against the petitioners are under Sections 498-A, 342 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’) and Sections 3, 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (for short ‘the Act’).

02. Heard Sri Ennamsetty Akhil, learned counsel for the petitioners-accused Nos.2 to 6, Bommineni Vivekananda, learned counsel for Respondent No.1 and Smt.S.Madhavi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the State-respondent No.2.

Perused the record.

03. In brief, the case of the prosecution is that the marriage between accused No.1 and respondent No.1 was solemnized on 02.12.2015. After one month of the marriage, accused No.1 arranged a visa for respondent No.1. While making the necessary arrangements, accused Nos.2 to 6 advised her to inform the concerned authorities that she was going to serve as a cook and housemaid, and not as a wife joining her husband to lead a marital life