IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD TUESDAY, THE TWENTIETH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.7880 OF 2008 Between: Smt. Laxmamma & 3 others ……Petitioners AND State of A.P. through S.H.O. of Gopalpeta Police Station, Nagarkurnool Taluq, Mahabubnagar District, Rep. by Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad & another .....Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.7880 OF 2008 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioners Smt. Laxmamma, Chennarayudu, Kum. Anitha and Kum. Radha, who are accused Nos.2 to 5 respectively, seeking to quash the proceedings against them in Crime No.88 of 2008 on the file of Gopalpet Police Station, Mahbubnagar District, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 498-A IPC and 3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961. 2. Heard both sides. 3. Petitioner Nos.1 and 2 are parents-in-law and petitioner Nos.3 and 4 are sisters-in-law of the de facto complainant, respondent No.2 herein. 4. A reading of the complaint reveals that there are no specific allegations against all these petitioners. Though, their names are mentioned in the complaint, what is alleged against them is that they have mentally and physically harassed the de facto complainant. It is very difficult to believe that unmarried sisters-in-law – petitioner Nos.3 and 4, who are aged 19 and 17 years respectively, have harassed the de facto complainant for dowry. 5. In the circumstances and in view of the fact that there are no specific allegations against petitioner Nos.3 and 4, they deserve the case against them to be quashed. 6. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed in part in respect of petitioner Nos.3 and 4 alone and the proceedings against them in Crime No.88 of 2008 on the file of Gopalpet Police Station, Mahbubnagar District are quashed. The Criminal Petition is dismissed against petitioner Nos.1 and 2. ____________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J October 20, 2009. NOTE: Furnish C.C. of the order by today. (B/O) PV