THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO.10043 OF 2009 Dated 3rd December, 2009 Between: Shyam Sunder and four others …Petitioners And The State of A.P. through Adilabad II-Town Police Station and another …Respondents The Court made the following ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C is filed by the petitioners under Section 482 Cr.P.C seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.586 of 2002 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Adilabad. 2. Heard. 3. Petitioner No.1 is the husband of the de facto complainant and petitioners 2 to 4 are the relations of petitioner No.1. The offences alleged against the petitioners are under Sections 498-A IPC and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961. 4. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners that on 14.04.2003, there was a mutual consent divorce between petitioner No.1 and the de facto complainant in O.P.No.24 of 2002, on the file of the Senior Civil Judge’s Court, Adilabad; that in the said divorce petition, a joint memo was filed by petitioner No.1 and the de facto complainant, wherein the de facto complainant categorically agreed that she would withdraw Crime No.108 of 2002 on the file of II-Town Police Station, Adilabad, which was registered against the petitioners on the report given by the de facto complainant, but later she did not withdraw the same; that the police, after investigation into the said crime, filed charge sheet, which was taken on file as C.C.No.586 of 2002 by the Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Adilabad. 5. Considering the circumstances, particularly the fact that petitioner No.1 and the de facto complainant have already taken divorce by mutual consent, it is directed that the petitioners shall not be arrested for a fortnight, within which time they shall appear before the Court below and execute appropriate bonds for their appearance. 6. With the above directions, the Criminal Petition is disposed of, at the admission stage itself. ______________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J Dated 3rd December, 2009 vrn