IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD MONDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.517 OF 2010 Between: Padiyala Srihari ……Petitioner – Accused No.5 AND The State of A.P., Rep. by the Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad & another .....Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.517 OF 2010 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioner Padiyala Srihari, accused No.5, seeking to quash the proceedings against him in Crime No.147 of 2009 of One Town Police Station, Gudur, Nellore District, registered for the offence under Section 304-B IPC. 2. Heard. 3. Section 304-B IPC contemplates the offence by husband and his relatives. 4. In the case on hand, petitioner is said to be a friend of the husband of the deceased. But, in the complaint at every place there is reference about the importance of the petitioner in the affairs of the family of the husband of the deceased. It also refers that petitioner also participated in causing death of the deceased. Though, under Section 304-B IPC, only the husband and his relatives are liable, on the basis of the facts of this case, there is possibility of the offence being under Section 302 IPC as well. 5. In the circumstances, it is not a fit case for quashing the impugned proceedings against the petitioner. 6. Therefore, the Criminal Petition is dismissed at the admission stage itself. ____________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J February 1, 2010. PV