THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.13429 OF 2010 DATED 4th NOVEMBER, 2011. BETWEEN : 1) Smt.Kavitha 2) T.Naresh Singh .. Petitioners-A.5 & A.6 and The State of A.P. & another ..Respondents THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.13429 OF 2010 ORDER: Petitioners-A.5 and A.6 preferred the present Criminal Petition by invoking the provision under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure seeking to quash proceedings against them pending in C.C.No.315 of 2007 on the file of the XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, for the offence punishable under Sections 498A of Indian Penal Code and 4 and 6 of Dowry Prohibition Act. A reading of the complaint of the de facto complainant as well as the charge sheet reveals that on 04.05.2005 the marriage of the victim was performed with A.1. At that time, as per the demand of the accused 95 tulas of gold ornaments, Rs.15 lakhs cash, 2 Kgs of silver, Hero Honda Splendor motorcycle were given apart from other household articles. It is further alleged that two months thereafter all the accused started harassing the complainant over petty issues. Further, the accused were also alleged to have demanded an additional dowry of Rs.10,00,000/-. It is further alleged that on 02.03.2006 the mother-in-law and sister-in-law of the complainant i.e. A.3 and A.5 with the instigation of other accused forcefully poured Hit spray in the mouth of the complainant, due to which she became unconscious and was treated in Yashoda hospital. When the elders conducted panchayat, accused persons refused to take back the complainant into their society. As such, she filed a complaint before the Court and on referring the same to concerned Police Station for investigation, Police registered a case, investigated the matter and filed charge sheet against A.1 to A.7. This Court perused the material on record and also heard arguments. As rightly pointed out by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the entire complaint filed by the complainant is reproduced in the charge sheet. Admittedly, petitioners herein, who are sister and brother-in-law of A.1, are not residing along with the family of A.1. Further, either in the complaint or in the charge sheet no specific averments are made attributing any specific overt acts against the petitioners and even the date and time of the occurrence is also not mentioned. The only specific allegation against the first petitioner herein is that on 02.03.2006 she along with A.3 forcibly sprayed some cockroach killing liquid in the mouth of the complainant, but till the date of lodging the present complaint on 07.11.2006, the said act of the accused was not reported by the complainant. Further as observed in the earlier paragraph, the reading of the entire material on record does not reveal any specific allegations against the petitioners except some bald allegation that the petitioners are also involved in the crime. Hence, this Court has no hesitation in quashing proceedings against the petitioners. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed and the proceedings against the petitioners alone in C.C.No.315 of 2007 on the file of the XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, are hereby quashed. Miscellaneous petitions filed in this petition, if any, shall stand closed. ________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Date : 04.11.2011 sur