HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G.V.SEETHAPATHY Criminal Petition No.4749 of 2009 ORDER: This criminal petition is filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. for quashing further proceedings against the petitioners-A.2 to A.5 in CC No.2963 of 2008 on the file of the I Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Visakhapatnam. 2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners. None appears for the first respondent-complainant. Perused the record. 3. Based on the complaint given by first respondent, a case in Cr.No.467 of 2008 was registered by the police against the petitioners-A.2 to A.5 and another i.e., A.1, who is husband of the complainant, for the offence under section 498-A IPC and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act and after investigation, filed charge sheet against all of them and the same was taken cognizance by the learned Magistrate in CC No.2963 of 2008. 4. A perusal of the complaint would show that the thrust of the allegations made only against her husband-A.1. According to the complainant, A.1 who is the doctor, working as Civil Assistant Surgeon at Area Hospital, Parvathipuram, has been neglecting his responsibilities towards the wife and children and has not been providing funds for their maintenance and the education of the children and on the other hand, is demanding the complainant to bring money from her parents in connection with his admission to P.G. Diploma course at Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam. It is also alleged that A.1 is not providing shelter to his wife and children in the house at Visakhapatnam and A.1 is also threatening to kill his wife and children, if she were given any complaint against them. Thus, the entire allegations in the complaint and also in the charge sheet are directed only against the husband-A.1. The only reference made to the petitioners-A.2 to A.5 in the complaint and the charge sheet is that they have been supporting A.1. The first petitioner-A.2 is stated to be the mother, 2nd petitioner-A.3 is the brother, 3rd petitioner-A.4 is the sister of A.1 and 5th petitioner-A.5 is the husband of A.4. No specific allegations have been made against any of the petitioners-A.2 to A.5 nor any specific overt acts attributed to them in connection with the alleged harassment and ill-treatment of the complainant by A.1. Except making vague allegation that the petitioners-A.2 to A.5 have been supporting A.1, there is absolutely no incriminating material gathered against them even after due investigation. Based on such vague and wild allegations, the continuance of further proceedings against the petitioners-A.2 to A.5 is not warranted at all. It is therefore considered a fit case where further proceedings against the petitioners-A.2 to A.5 in CC No.2963 of 2008 are liable to be quashed by invoking the inherent powers of the Court under Section 482 Cr.P.C. and they are accordingly quashed. Further proceedings against A.1 shall however go on. 5. In the result, the criminal petition is allowed. __________________ G.V.SEETHAPATHY, J Date: 24.11.2011 bss