HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 8502 of 2011 Order: The petitioners approach this Court with a prayer to quash the proceedings initiated against them in C.C. No. 120 of 2010 on the file of the Court of the Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Rayachoti, Kadapa District. Offences alleged against the petitioners are under Sections 498-A of I.P.C. and 3 & 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the 1st respondent left the matrimonial home in the year 2008 and subsequently she has not returned and she filed the present complaint after a period of two years. Further she did not reply to the legal notice dated 23.2.2009 issued by the 1st petitioner herein to join him and for restitution of conjugal rights. Learned counsel further submitted that in the reply notice dated 5.3.2009 sent by the 1st respondent also, the 1st respondent has not stated anything regarding the demand of additional dowry and harassment by the petitioners 2 and 3 and she filed the present complaint only with an intention to implicate them. On a perusal of the record and also the documents filed herein, this Court is of the view that all these are disputed questions of facts, which cannot be adjudicated by this Court while exercising the powers under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. and they have to be gone into by the trial Court during the course of trial. Hence, this Court is not inclined to interfere with the trial of the case at this stage. However, taking into consideration the fact that the offences arise out of matrimonial disputes, the presence of the petitioners before the trial Court is dispensed with, except on the dates on which the learned Magistrate insists for the same and they shall be properly represented by their counsel before the trial Court. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. Miscellaneous petitions filed in this Criminal Petition, if any, shall stand closed. _______________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Date : 19.09.2011 pnb