THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.879 of 2010 Dated : 08.02.2010 Between : Smt.N.Buchamma & others ….. Petitioners/A.2 to A.4 a n d The State of A.P. & another ….. Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.879 OF 2010 ORDER : De facto complainant-second respondent is present and in proof of her identity she filed Voter Identity Card bearing No.KGY2140721 and reports that the matter is settled out of Court and the proceedings against the petitioners may be quashed. She also reports that in pursuance of settlement, petitioners agreed to pay Rs.2,11,830/- out of which an amount of Rs.1,96,000/- is paid to her in the open Court by way of four banker cheques and the remaining amount is paid in cash. Present petitioners are the parents-in-law and co-sister of the second respondent and the offence alleged is punishable under Section 498A IPC and Sections 4 and 6 of Dowry Prohibition Act. The husband is allegedly untraceable since the year 2004. As the matter is settled between the parties out of the Court and as the offence arises out of a matrimonial dispute, this criminal petition is allowed and the proceedings in C.C.No.131 of 2006 on the file of XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate-cum-Mahila Court, Hyderabad, are quashed against the present petitioners only. Further, the case against the husband-A.1 shall go on. ______________________ P.SWAROOP REDDY, J 8th February, 2010 SUR