HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.4493 OF 2008 Dated : 24.06.2010 Between : T.Mallikarjun & others …. Petitioners a n d The State of A.P. & another … Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.4493 OF 2008 ORDER: This criminal petition under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is filed by the petitioners-A.1 to A.4 seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.580 of 2007 on the file of the XII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad registered for the offence punishable under Sections 498A, 120B, 323, 420, 406 and 506 Indian Penal Code and Sections 4 and 6 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The case of the prosecution is that the marriage of the victim with A.1 was performed on 22.06.2003 and at the time, as per the demand of the accused, Rs.50,000/- cash, 4 tulas gold besides household articles were given as dowry. After 10 months of the marriage, accused started harassing the victim to bring additional dowry of Rs.1,00,000/-. Further they also poured poison in the mouth of the victim with an intention to kill her, but she could survive with the help of the villagers. When the parents of the victim went to hospital to see her, the accused tried to attack them with rods and sticks. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned counsel for the second respondent - de facto complainant. Learned counsel for the petitioners filed a compromise deed executed between the parties concerned and the same was accepted by the counsel for the de facto complainant’s counsel. It is further submitted that the de facto complainant and accused are leaving separately and it is also submitted that the de facto complainant married another person and A.1 also married another woman. Further, the de facto is not interested in prosecuting the case. Considering the same and also in view of the compromise entered into between the parties, this Court is of the opinion that any continuation of the criminal proceedings in C.C.No.580 of 2007 will be a futile exercise. Therefore, the criminal petition is allowed and the proceedings against the petitioners in C.C.No.580 of 2007 on the file of the XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Hyderabad are quashed. ________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Dated : 24.06.2010 sur