THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE E.V.VENUGOPAL CRIMINAL PETITION No.2882 OF 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner seeking to set aside the impugned order dated 12.12.2024 passed in Crl.M.P.No.132 of 2024 in M.C.No.5 of 2024 on the file of the learned III Additional District and Sessions Judge-cum-II Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Medchal-Malkajgiri District at Kukatpally (for short, “the trial Court”).

2. The brief facts of the case are that the marriage between petitioner and respondent No.2 was solemnized on 03.05.2007 as per Muslim rites and customs. At the time of marriage, parents of respondent No.2 presented Rs.1,50,000/- cash, 3 tulas of gold ornaments, two gold rings and other household articles. Immediately after the marriage, respondent No.2 joined the company of the petitioner and lead happy marital life for some time and thereafter, the petitioner and his family members started harassing respondent No.2 for want of additional dowry. Out of the wedlock, respondent No.2 blessed with three children i.e., respondent Nos.3 to 5 herein. Respondent No.2 intimated the same to her parents and brothers. In order to keep their matrimonial life alive, her