This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.2
to 4 seeking to quash the criminal proceedings against them in
C.C.No.6100 of 2020 on the file of the learned V Additional
Metropolitan Magistrate, Ranga Reddy District at L.B.Nagar. The
offences alleged against the petitioners are under Sections 498-A,
417, 406, 506 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’) and Sections
3, 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (for short ‘the Act’).
02. Heard Sri H.Venugopal, learned Senior Counsel representing
Sri S.Amarender Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners-accused
Nos.2 to 4, Sri Molepeddi Srinivas Reddy, learned counsel for
Respondent No.2 and Smt.S.Madhavi, learned Assistant Public
Prosecutor for the State-respondent No.1. Perused the record.
03(a). In brief, the case of the prosecution is that the marriage
between accused No.1 and the victim was solemnized on 16.03.2017.
After the marriage, the victim joined the matrimonial home at
Hastinapuram to lead a conjugal life. On 26.03.2017, both the victim
and accused No.1 traveled to the United States of America (USA).
Initially, they lived happily for about a week and thereafter, accused
No.1 allegedly began harassing the victim, demanding that the plots
given to her at the time of marriage be registered in his name. He also
demanded additional dowry, allegedly at the instigation of accused
Nos.2 to 4.
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