THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE R.KANTHA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NOs.9080 AND 9081 OF 2010 ORDER: These two Criminal Petitions are filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, seeking to quash the proceedings against the petitioners in C.C.No.142 of 2008 on the file of the XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad and C.C.No.717 of 2009 on the file of the VI Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, respectively. The second respondent-de facto complainant is the wife of the first petitioner. The remaining petitioners are the close relatives of the first petitioner. Now, it is stated that both the parties have compromised out side the Court and wanted to compound the offences before the respective Courts below. The offences under Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, and Section 66 of the Information Technology Act, 2000, being non-compoundable offences, the present Criminal Petitions are filed to quash the proceedings against the petitioners, as it is not possible to compound the said offences before the trial Court. In view of the compromise between the parties, if the trial is proceeded with it will cause hardship to the parties. Further, there is no likelihood of any case ending in conviction. The exercise of the trial Court would be proved futile and it will be nothing but sheer abuse of process of law. Therefore, I am of the considered view that the proceedings against the petitioners are liable to be quashed. In the result, both the Criminal Petitions are allowed and the proceedings against the petitioners in C.C.No.142 of 2008 on the file of the XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad and C.C.No.717 of 2009 on the file of the VI Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, respectively, are hereby quashed. ________________ (R.KANTHA RAO, J) 7th September 2010 RRB