THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALAKRISHNA TAMADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.11063 of 2009 DATED:05-07-2010 ORDER: The 2nd respondent herein, namely Smt.Nallagutta Shailaja Rani, wife of the 1st petitioner herein approached the Begumpet women police station and gave a complaint on 30-04-2008 and the said police registered it as Cr.No.75 of 2008 against her husband and others for the alleged offences punishable under Section 498-A IPC and Sections 3 & 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Questioning the said proceedings, the husband-1st petitioner herein and other accused therein approached this Court and filed the present petition. However, this Court did not grant any interim stay of investigation. 2. It appears, due to the intervention of elders the parties agreed to get their marriage dissolved by mutual consent and accordingly both of them approached the Family Court, Secunderabad and filed O.P.No.218 of 2009 and the learned Judge, Family Court at Secunderabad by her order, dated 21-12-2009, granted a decree of divorce under Section 13-B of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 i.e. divorce on mutual consent. Further, M.C.No.68 of 2008 filed by the 2nd respondent herein-wife was also closed on 21-12-2009 by the very same Judge. 3. In the light of the dissolution of the marriage, the parties entered into compromise and they stated that they want to get the matter closed. 4. Today, the parties are present before this Court and when questioned, the complainant-wife stated that she is not interested in getting the matter prosecuted. 5. At this juncture, learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that as the investigation was not stayed, the police completed the investigation and filed charge sheet and the same was numbered as C.C.No.117 of 2010 and pending on the file of the learned XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Nampally, Hyderabad. However, as the wife stated that she is not interested in getting the matter prosecuted, this Court is inclined to quash all further proceedings in the said crime. As the learned counsel for the petitioner sought permission to amend the prayer in this petition, permission is granted and the prayer is amended. The proceedings in C.C.No.117 of 2010 on the file of the learned XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad are hereby quashed. 6. Accordingly, Criminal Petition is allowed. _______________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA,J 05th July, 2010. Tsy