HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDA RAJULU CRIMINAL PETITION NO.4808 OF 2010 DATE:09.06.2010 Between: Md. Showkat Ali and 6 others …….Petitioners And: State of AP., rep. by PP and another ……Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDA RAJULU CRIMINAL PETITION NO.4808 OF 2010 ORDER: The petitioners 1 to 7/A-1 to A-7 are accused of offences punishable under Section 498-A IPC and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act in Crime No.44 of 2010 of Nizamabad II Town Police Station. A-1 is husband of the 2nd respondent/defacto-complainant. A-2 and A-3 are parents, A-4 and A-5 are brothers, A-6 and A-7 are married sisters of A-1. It is alleged that at the time of marriage dowry of Rs.40,000/-, furniture and cooking utensils worth Rs.70,000/- were given by the parents of the 2nd respondent in the year 2006. It is further alleged since one year prior to the report, A-1 stopped going for his work after addicting himself to drinking and that since then A-1 to A-7 began demanding additional dowry of Rs.1,00,000/- saying A-1’s brother who divorced his wife and married for the second time, was given dowry of Rs.2,00,000/- in his second marriage and that A-1 was indulging in physical violence against the defacto-complainant and that finally she was necked out of the house demanding to bring further dowry of Rs.1,00,000/-. It is contended by the petitioners’ counsel that only omnibus and bald allegations were made against all the accused and that no specific dates are given for the alleged demands in the report given by the 2nd respondent/complainant. FIR is not be all and end all of the prosecution case. It is not encyclopedia. During the course of investigation, the police will record detailed statements of the 2nd respondent and her witnesses under Section 161(3) Cr.P.C. It is only to note that the allegations in the report taken on their face value would prima facie disclose the offences for which the crime was registered. Truth or otherwise of the said allegations is a question of fact which this Court cannot go into in this petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. I do not find any valid or legal reasons to intercept with investigation at its threshold. Hence, the petition is dismissed. ____________________________________ SAMUDRALA GOVINDA RAJULU,J. Date:09.06.2010. GK. THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDA RAJULU CRIMINAL PETITION NO.4808 OF 2010 Date:09.06.2010 Gk.