HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.11045 of 2011 ORDER: This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner/A-6, under Section 482 Cr.P.C., seeking to quash the proceedings initiated against her in C.C.No.114 of 2011 on the file of II Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Kothagudem of Khammam District, wherein the petitioner is facing trial for the offences punishable under Section 498-A and Sections 3 & 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. Heard and perused the record. The allegation against the petitioner, who is arrayed as A-6 in the present case, is that she had illegal intimacy with A-1, who is the husband of the defacto-complainant. To attract an offence punishable under Section 498-A IPC, the person, against whom the allegations of such an offence is made, should be related to the husband of the woman who had been subjected to cruelty. In the case on hand, admittedly, the petitioner/A-6 is not related to the husband of the de facto complainant. Further, on a perusal of the entire reading of the complaint, this Court is of the view that there are no prima facie ingredients of Sections 3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. Hence, the proceedings against the petitioner/ A-6 are liable to be quashed. Accordingly, the criminal petition is allowed and the proceedings against the petitioner/A-6 in C.C.No.114 of 2011 on the file of II Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Kothagudem of Khammam District, are quashed. The miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in this criminal petition shall stand closed. ______________ RAJA ELANGO, J 9th November, 2011 v v