HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.5692 OF 2007 DATE:23-09-2010 BETWEEN Mandala Lakshmi Devi & Others …Petitioners AND The SHO, Nandyal III Town Police Station, Kurnool and State rep. by Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad & Another. …Respondents THIS COURT MADE THE FOLLOWING: HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.5692 OF 2007 ORDER: This petition under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure has been filed to quash the proceedings against the petitioners in C.C.No.247 of 2006 pending on the file of Judicial First Class Magistrate, Nandyal wherein they were charged for the offence under Section 498-A IPC read with Sections 4 and 5 of Dowry Prohibition Act. A.1 is the husband of the complainant-second respondent herein; A.2 to A.4, who are the petitioners herein are the mother and brothers of A.1. The complaint allegations disclose that after the marriage with the complainant-second respondent herein, A.1 used to attend the house once in a week; that after some time of the marriage, he started harassing the complainant for additional dowry. Unable to tolerate the harassment, the complainant left the matrimonial house and went to her parents’ house and that A.1 used to visit the house of her parents now and then. In spite of complainant’s request with A.1 to take her to his work place, he did not take her. It is also alleged that A.1 was adducted to liquor and was having illicit intimacy with some other lady and did not pay single paise for the maintenance of the complainant, and that whenever she asked for money, A.1 used to beat her. In the sworn statement, the complainant improved her version stating that her husband, mother-in-law and brothers of her husband demanded for more dowry. Learned Additional Public Prosecutor submits that after filing the charge sheet, A.1 died and the case against him has been abated. The entire allegations in the complaint and the sworn statement of the complainant, do not disclose the commission of offence by the petitioners herein and at the earliest point of time i.e. in the complaint, allegations were made only against her husband-A.1 about his harassment, ill-treatment and not taking the complainant to his work place to lead marital life. In view of the same, allowing the impugned proceedings to continue against the petitioners is nothing but abuse of process of law and the same are accordingly quashed as against the petitioners herein. The Criminal Petition is accordingly allowed. _________________ A. GOPAL REDDY, J. SEPTEMBER 23, 2010 Tsr.