HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No: 3890 OF 2008 Dated 17-6-2010 Between: K. Jaya Sree and another. …Petitioners. And: The State of A.P. represented by the Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad and another. …Respondents. HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No: 3890 OF 2008 ORDER: This Criminal Petition is filed seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.228 of 2008 on the file of the learned 2nd Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Cyberabad, L.B.Nagar, Ranga Reddy District so far as the petitioners are concerned, registered for the offence under Sections 498 I.P.C. and sections 3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. It is alleged that the husband of the defacto complainant and his family members are harassing her for bringing additional dowry from her parents. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Public Prosecutor. The petitioners are the sisters-in-law of the defacto complainant. Admittedly, they are college students. Their age at the time of occurrence is 23 and 19 years. It is needless to go into the facts of the case to decide the issue since the Charge Sheet is filed by the police. There is no allegation against the petitioners except the fact of incorporating their names in the Charge sheet. There is no specific allegation except the fact that the defecto complainant mentioned the name of the petitioners as they are relatives of the 1st accused concerned. In view of the same and also a perusal of the entire record, this Court is of the view that there is no offence made out against the petitioners. Hence, he need not be subjected to face trial in the above said case. Accordingly, the proceedings initiated against the petitioners herein in the above case are quashed. It is made clear that in any event, the learned Magistrate is at liberty to proceed with further against the other accused concerned in the above C.C. in accordance with law and dispose of the same within a period of six months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. With the above observation, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. __________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Dated 17-06-2010. Dvs HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No: 3890 OF 2008 Dated 17-06-2010