HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.12561 of 2010 ORDER: This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused, under Section 482 Cr.P.C., seeking to quash the proceedings initiated against them in C.C.No.197 of 2010 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Nalgonda, taken on file for the offences under Sections 498-A, 506 of IPC and 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Heard. The main contentions raised by the learned counsel for the petitioners are that the 2nd respondent married one Mr. Ramanujacharyulu at Aryasamajam, Nalgonda, on 25.1.2010, without obtaining divorce from the petitioner through competent Court, that suppressing the actual facts, the 2nd respondent filed a domestic violence case and a maintenance case against the petitioner, and that when the petitioner appeared before the lower Court in a maintenance case, the 2nd respondent and her henchmen attacked the petitioner. The marriage certificate issued by the President, Aryasamajam, Nalgonda, specifically reveals that the 2nd respondent married one Mr. Seshabattar Ramanujacharyulu on 25.1.2010 in the presence of elders in Aryasamajam at Nalgonda. Whereas the complaint is lodged with the police on 17.1.2010, which clearly indicates that the present complaint is motivated and filed with a malafide intention. Hence, this Court is of the view that the proceedings in the calendar case are liable to be quashed. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed and the proceedings initiated against the petitioners herein in C.C.No.197 of 2010 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Nalgonda, are hereby quashed. Miscellaneous petitions, if any, filed shall stand closed. _____________ RAJA ELANGO, J 9th August, 2011 cbs HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Criminal Petition No.12561 of 2010 (Allowed) 9th August, 2011 cbs