IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THURSDAY, THE TWENTY NINTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.8871 OF 2009 Between: 1. Yousuf Khan @ Shahed 2. Osman Khan @ Galib ……Petitioners – accused Nos.4 and 5 AND Smt. Mehar Khatoon & another .....Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.8871 OF 2009 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioners Yousuf Khan @ Shahed and Osman Khan @ Galib – accused Nos.4 and 5 respectively seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C. No.535 of 2007 on the file of XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, arising out of Crime No.103 of 2007 of Women’s Police Station, Central Crime Station, Hyderabad, registered for the offence punishable under Section 498-A IPC. 2. Heard. 3. Without going into the merits of the case, this petition is liable to be dismissed on account of delay as the C.C. is of 2007 and this petition for quashing the same is filed now at the end of 2009. 4. However, as the petitioners are brothers-in-law of the de facto complainant and the allegations against them are omnibus in nature, their presence can be dispensed with during trial except when required. 5. Therefore, it is directed that the trial Court shall dispense with the presence of the petitioners during trial on an appropriate application being filed by them for the same, except at the time of framing charges, their examination under Section 313 Cr.P.C. and judgment etc. 6. With the above directions, the Criminal Petition is dismissed at the stage of admission itself. ______________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J October 29, 2009. PV