IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD WEDNESDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.4837 OF 2009 Between: 1. Smt. Vennu Radha 2. Vennu Prem Kumar 3. Vennu Sai Kumar 4. Kum. Vennu Swathi 5. Smt. Seeram Kalpana ……Petitioners – Accused Nos.2 to 6 AND The State of A.P., through the Station House Officer, Hayathnagar Police Station, Cyberabad City, R.R. District, Rep. by the Public Prosecutor High Court of A.P., Hyderabad & another .....Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.4837 OF 2009 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioners, accused Nos.2 to 6 respectively, seeking to quash the proceedings against them in Crime No.298 of 2009 of Hayathnagar Police Station, Cyberabad, registered for the offence under Sections 498-A IPC. 2. Heard. 3 . Petitioner Nos.1 and 2 are parents-in-law, petitioner Nos.3 and 4 are unmarried brother-in-law and sister-in-law, respectively, of the de facto complainant Smt. Vennu Shirisha, respondent No.2 herein, and petitioner No.5 is a relative of the other petitioners. 4. There are serious allegations against petitioner Nos.1 and 2, as such, no relief can be granted in their favour. However, as petitioner Nos.3 and 4 are unmarried brother-in-law and sister-in-law of the de facto complainant and petitioner No.5 is a relative of the other petitioners, their arrest can be stayed. 5 . In the circumstances, it is directed that investigation and consequential steps on the basis of result of the investigation shall go on, but the petitioner Nos.3 to 5 shall not be arrested till filing of charge sheet, if any. 6. With the above directions, the Criminal Petition is allowed in part in respect of petitioner Nos.3 to 5 alone and the same is dismissed against petitioner Nos.1 and 2. ____________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J December 9, 2009. PV