HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Crl.P.No. 4887 of 2008 Date: 08-07-2010 Between: Syed Mohammed Mehdi and others …. Petitioners and State of Andhra Pradesh and another ……….. Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Crl.P.No. 4887 of 2008 ORDER: The petitioners/A-1 to A-4 approached this Court with a prayer to quash the proceedings in Crime No.1109 of 2007 of Uppal Police Station, Ranga Reddy District, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 498-A, 406 and 506 of IPC and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Admittedly, the present case is referred under Section 156(3) of Cr.P.C. by the learned Magistrate for registration of the crime. The complaint allegations are that A-1 married the defacto complainant on 05-041996 as per the Muslim Law and customs as third wife. During her conjugal life, she is blessed with one female baby and thereafter all the Accused harassed her mentally and physically and necked out her from the house. The learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the defacto complainant/wife divorced with the first petitioner/ husband three years prior to the lodging of this complaint and after three years, the learned Magistrate shall not take cognizance of the offence in view of Section 468 of Cr.P.C. and further submitted that the allegations in the complaint are false in nature and no specific allegations are made against the petitioners. This Court is of the view that when a case of cognizable offence is registered by the police, this Court cannot go into the genuineness or reliability of the allegations concerned. In any event, it is the duty of the Investigation Officer to go into the reliability and genuineness of the allegations. In view of the same, the Investigation Officer is directed to consider the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners in this criminal petition and to enquire the defacto complainant as well as the petitioners herein and file final report either way in accordance with law. With the above observation, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. _____________ RAJA ELANGO, J Date: 08-07-2010 YCR