THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.1083 of 2009 ORDER: Petitioners approached this Court with a prayer to quash the proceedings initiated against them in Crime No.2 of 008 of Inkuduru Police Station, Machilipatnam, Krishna District, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 342, 406, 498-A and 420 read with Section 34 IPC. The allegations against the petitioners/Accused Nos.2 and 3, who are the parents of Accused No.1 are that after the marriage of their son with the defacto-complainant, they demanded the defacto- complainant to get additional dowry saying that if their son had married another lady, they would have got more dowry, and they also instigated Accused No.1 to beat the complainant by picking up a quarrel. Heard. On perusing the entire complaint, this Court is of the view that except stating that these petitioners demanded the defacto- complainant to bring additional dowry and instigated Accused No.1 to beat the defacto-complainant, no specific allegations are made against these petitioners. Further more, a mere demand of dowry is not an offence under Section 498-A of IPC. To attract an offence under Section 498-A of IPC, there should be specific allegations of harassment and humiliation in connection with the demand of additional dowry, but in the present case, there are no such ingredients. Hence, the proceedings against the petitioners in the present crime are liable to be quashed. This criminal petition is accordingly allowed and the proceedings against the petitioners in Crime No.2 of 2009 of Inakuduru Police Station, Machilipatnam, Krishna District, are quashed. ____________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO 01.04.2011 v v