THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.7098 of 2007 ORDER: This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C to quash the proceedings initiated against the petitioners, who are husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law of the second respondent- complainant respectively, in Crime No.197 of 2007 registered by II Town Police Station, Vizianagaram, on the reference made under Section 156(3) Cr.P.C, by the learned Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Vizianagaram, for the offence under Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioners contends that the second respondent has already filed a complaint against the petitioners herein for the very same offence, based on which, a case in Crime No.192 of 2005 was registered by II Town Police Station, Vizianagaram, for the offences under Section 498-A I.P.C and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961; that subsequently, the said crime was numbered as C.C.No.35 of 2006 and the same was ended in conviction; that during the pendency of the appeal preferred against the said C.C., the matter was compromised between the parties and the offence was compounded and that now the first petitioner and the second respondent are living together, and therefore, no further orders need be passed in this criminal petition. In view of the above statement, Crime No.197 of 2007 on the file of II Town Police Station, Vizianagaram, is referred to the District Legal Services Authority, Vizianagaram, to record the settlement, taking into consideration the compromise, which was already entered into between the first petitioner and the second respondent in the appeal preferred against C.C.No.35 of 2006 on the file of the Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Vizianagaram. With the above direction, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. _____________________ A. GOPAL REDDY, J Date: 11.11.2010 va