HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU CRL.PETITION NO.3599 OF 2010 Date:21.04.2010 Between: Guntupalli Nageswar Rao and others. …..Petitioners And: Guntupalli Prathima and another. …..Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU CRL.PETITION NO.3599 OF 2010 ORDER: The petitioners 1 to 4 who are the respondents 2 to 5 in D.V.C. No.3 of 2010 on the file of II Additional Judicial Magistrate of the First Class, Khammam seek quashing of proceedings therein under Section 482 Cr.P.C. D.V.C. No. 3 of 2010 is filed by the 1st respondent against her husband and relations. The petitioners 1 to 4 are relations of her husband. The 1st respondent is claiming several reliefs under Sections 12, 18, 19, 20 and 23 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act. It is her allegation that the petitioners herein are strongly supporting her husband demanding to bring additional dowry since the year 2001. She is claiming protection, monetary reliefs etc., in the petition. Having regard to reliefs claimed in the petition and allegations made in the petition, it cannot be said that the petitioners herein who are respondents 2 to 5 in D.V.C No.3 of 2010 are unnecessarily impleaded to harass them. 2) I do not find any valid or legal grounds to quash proceedings in D.V.C. No.3 of 2010 in so far as the petitioners are concerned. It is contended by the petitioners’ counsel that the petitioners are being asked to attend the lower Court on every date of hearing and it is causing lot of hardship. 3) In the result, the petition is dismissed. Personal attendance of the petitioners 1 to 4/respondents 2 to 5 in the lower Court is dispensed with subject to the petitioners being represented by an Advocate in the lower Court. ________________________________ SAMUDRALA GOVINDA RAJULU,J. April 21, 2010 KSH