THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.8002 of 2009 ORDER: Petitioners approach this Court with a prayer to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.660 of 2007 on the file of the I Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Visakhapatnam including their appearance during the pendency of the said case, initiated under Section 498-A IPC. Heard. The 1st petitioner is the father-in-law of the defacto-complainant. 2nd petitioner is the mother-in-law of the defacto-complainant. Petitioners 3 and 4 are the sisters-in-law of the defacto-complainant. The learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the petitioners are innocents and they were falsely implicated in the alleged crime and the main allegations are against the A.1 i.e., the husband of the defacto- complainant and hence he prays to allow the petition. On perusal of the entire material available on record and the charge sheet, it is clear that there are allegations against the husband of the defacto- complainant i.e., A.1 and no specific allegations mentioned against the petitioners herein to attract the offence under Section 498-A IPC, except the allegations that the petitioners instigated the husband of the defacto- complainant to harass her. In the absence of any specific allegations or specific overt acts to attract an offence under Section 498-A IPC, this Court is of the view that the proceedings in C.C.No.660 of 2007 pending against the petitioners/A.2 to A.5 on the file of the I Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Visakhapatnam, are liable to be quashed. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed quashing the proceedings in C.C.No.660 of 2007, pending against the petitioners 2 to 5/A.2 to A.5 on the file of the I Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Visakhapatnam. Miscellaneous Petitions filed in this Criminal Petition, if any, shall stand closed. _________________ RAJA ELANGO,J Date:22.12.2011. Gk. THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.8002 of 2009 Date: 22.12.2011 Gk.