IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THURSDAY, THE TWENTY NINTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.8875 OF 2009 Between: 1. Syed Bagdad Hussain 2. Syed Farooq ……Petitioners – accused Nos.1 and 2 AND Syed Mahboob Ali & another .....Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.8875 OF 2009 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioners Syed Bagdad Hussain and Syed Farooq, accused Nos.1 and 2 respectively, seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C. No.117 of 2007 on the file of XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad arising out of Crime No.83 of 2007 of Women’s Police Station, Central Crime Station, Hyderabad registered for the offences punishable under Sections 406 IPC and 6 of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961. 2. Heard. 3. Without going into the merits of the case, the Criminal Petition is dismissed, at the stage of admission itself, as the C.C. is of 2007 and the petitioner approached this Court now at the end of 2009 and in case there is no prima facie case against him, he ought to have filed this petition for quash initially itself. ______________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J October 29, 2009. PV