THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE K. SUJANA CRIMINAL PETITION No.3631 of 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed seeking to quash the proceedings against the petitioners in C.C.No.9319 of 2021 on the file of the learned XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Nampally, Hyderabad, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 498-A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘IPC’) and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 (for short ‘DP Act’).

2. The brief facts of the case are that on 16.10.2015 respondent No.2/de facto complainant lodged a complainant against the petitioners stating that her marriage was performed on 10.08.2013 as per Muslim customs and traditions with petitioner No.1. She alleged that from the very beginning of the marriage, she was subjected to physical and mental harassment by her husband, mother-in-law, and father-in-law, both in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) and Hyderabad, in connection with demands for additional dowry in the form of money, gold, and electronic items. Her father had already given cash of Rs.25,00,000/-, along with gold and diamond jewellery, expensive clothes, and electronic items at the time of marriage. She further stated