THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G.V.SEETHAPATHY CRIMINAL PETITION No.7440 OF 2008 ORDER: This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C., seeking quashing of further proceedings in C.C.No.790 of 2007 on the ﬁle of the learned VII Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad. 2. None appeared for the petitioners. No representation is made on their behalf. Heard learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondent-State. Perused the record. 3. On a complaint given by one P.Kalyani, police, Vanasthalipuram registered a case in Cr.No.265 of 2007 against her husband-P.Rajasekhar and parents-in-law-petitioners herein for the oﬀences under Sections 498-A IPC and Sections 3 & 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Investigation is pending. 4. According to the complainant, her marriage with A1 was performed on 11.10.2003 and that within a week after marriage she got selected and posted in the Archaeological Survey of India in Gujarat and she joined the job towards the end of October, 2003 and even a few days thereafter her husband started harassing her physically and mentally demanding money. It is further alleged in the complaint that the petitioners herein and also her sister-in-law and her husband used to constantly pester her for money and her husband has taken away her ATM cards and pin numbers and withdrew all the amounts from her bank account leaving her ﬁnancially helpless. It is further alleged that she had to give up the job at Gujarat and take up another assignment at Hyderabad and she was made to stay in a ﬂat at Padma colony, Nallakunta in the house of one Sambareddy, but she could not adjust there as her husband was indecently behaving with the wife of the said Sambareddy and proclaiming that the second son of Sambareddy was born to him. In the complaint, the details of the various acts of alleged harassment and ill-treatment by her husband and in-laws have been narrated in great detail. The truth or otherwise of the said allegations is however a matter to be considered during the investigation. 5. A perusal of the complaint would disclose that speciﬁc allegations have been made against the petitioners and also the husband attributing speciﬁc overt acts with reference to dates and events in graphic description. 6. Having regard to the fact that the allegations made in the complaint, prima facie attracting the ingredients of the alleged oﬀences, which require to be investigated to ascertain the truth, it is considered not a ﬁt case to invoke the inherent powers of the Court under Section 482 Cr.P.C., and quash further proceedings and scuttle further investigation. 7. In the result, Criminal Petition is dismissed. _______________________ G.V.SEETHAPATHY, J 01st December, 2011. Tsy