HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 7059 OF 2010. DATED 20TH JULY, 2010. BETWEEN Avinash Guptha and ors ….Petitioners and The State of AP, rep. By its Public Prosecutor and anr …Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 7059 OF 2010. ORDER: This is a petition ﬁled under Section 482 Cr.P.C. seeking to quash the FIR in Crime No. 369 of 2009 of the Police Station,Shadnagar, Mahaboobnagar District. The oﬀence alleged against the petitioners is under Section 498-A. and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The case of the prosecution in brief is that the second respondent-defacto complainant married ﬁrst petitioner herein and during the said marriage, the parents of the second respondent gave Rs.5.00 lacks and other household valuable items including silver and gold towards dowry and that one month after the marriage, the first petitioner/husband and his parents started harassing the second respondent/wife for additional dowry. It was further stated that the petitioners also subjected the second respondent to mental and physical harassment on pretext or the other. Hence the complaint. Heard both sides. The learned Counsel for the petitioners raised several grounds and one among other is that the defacto-complainant ﬁled the complaint against the petitioners with malaﬁde intention and as a counter blast to the case ﬁled by the ﬁrst petitioner for divorce in OP.No. 433 of 2009. On a perusal of the records it reveals that both parties raised several allegations with each other and the Investigating Oﬃcer after registering the case, took up investigation into the allegations raised by the parties. With regard to the allegations levelled against parties each other, this Court is of the view that when the FIR is registered on the basis of cognisable oﬀence, this Court while exercising powers under Section 482 Cr.P.C. has no jurisdiction to go into the reliability and genuineness of the allegations made in the FIR and it is the prerogative of the Investigating Oﬃcer to verify the same. The Investigation Oﬃcer is hereby directed to verify the genuineness and reliability of the allegations made in the complaint and ﬁle charge sheet either way. In view of the above, this Court is not inclined to quash the proceedings. With the above observation, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. ----------------------------------- JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO DATED 20T H JULY, 2010. Msnr.