HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE B.N. RAO NALLA CRIMINAL PETITION No.8127 OF 2008 ORDER: The petitioner, who is accused No.9 in C.C.No.154 of 2008 on the file of the V Additional Munsif Magistrate, Guntur, has filed this petition under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 seeking to quash the proceedings of the said C.C. against him. 2. The petitioner is alleged to have committed the offences under Sections 323, 506, 341 and 498-A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short “IPC”) and under Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (for short “the Act”). 3. The learned counsel for the petitioner/A-9 submits that the petitioner and her husband are related to the mother-in-law (A-2) of the de facto complainant and as per the complaint, it was the petitioner/A-9 and her husband arranged the de facto complainant’s marriage with A-1 and that the de facto complainant has not made any allegations against the petitioner/A-9 in her complaint except stating that at the panchayat raised by the village elders, the petitioner/A-9 and her husband could not support the de facto complainant and, on the contrary, they supported A-1 and A-2. He also submits that the de facto complainant had previously filed a police complaint against all the accused, including the petitioner/A-9, for the offence under Section 498-A of IPC and Sections 3 and 4 of the Act, in which the police after investigation found that there was no evidence against all the accused except A-1 and A-2. Thereafter the de facto complainant has filed the present complaint, in which the petitioner is shown as A-9. As such, he contended that the proceedings in C.C.No.154 of 2008 may be quashed so far as the petitioner/A-9 is concerned. 4. On the other hand, the learned Additional Public Prosecutor submits that the petitioner/A-9 is related to A-1, she is one of the accused in instigating A-1 in committing the acts of harassment and cruelty against the de facto complainant and he further submits that it is the petitioner/A-9, who has instigated the other accused in perpetrating the alleged crime against the de facto complainant. 5. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case and also after hearing both sides and since she is alleged to have instigated A-1 in harassing his de facto complainant wife, this Court is of the view that it is not a fit case to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.154 of 2008 so far as the petitioner/A-9 is concerned, exercising the powers under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, and as such the petition is liable to be dismissed. 6. In the result, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. ________________ B.N. RAO NALLA,J 10.11.2011 MR HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE B.N. RAO NALLA CRIMINAL PETITION No.8127 OF 2008 10.11.2011 MR