THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.748 OF 2010 Dated : 03.02.2010 Between : B.Chinnabba Naidu & another ….. Petitioners/A.2 & A.3 a n d The State of A.P. & others ….. Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.748 OF 2010 ORDER : This criminal petition is filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. by the petitioners-A.2 & A.3 seeking to quash proceedings against them in C.C.No.167 of 2008 on the file of Judicial First Class Magistrate, Puttur, for the offence punishable under Sections 324, 498A read with Section 34 I.P.C. and Sections 3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. 2) Heard. 3) The calendar case is of the year 2008 and the petition seeking to quash the proceedings is filed in the year 2010. Hence, without going into merits of the case, this petition is liable to be dismissed as in case there is no prima facie material against the petitioners, they ought to have approached this Court at the initial stage itself and the petitioners might have filed this petition in order to delay the disposal of main case. 4) Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the second petitioner is suffering from paralysis, but the medical prescription filed along with the criminal petition did not disclose the same, but it only reveals that the second petitioner is suffering from throat and hearing problem. 5) Therefore, the criminal petition is dismissed granting liberty to the petitioners to take all the pleas taken before this Court before the trial Court. ______________________ P.SWAROOP REDDY, J 3rd February, 2010 SUR