1. These instant petitions under Section 482 of Code of Criminal
Procedure, 19731 have been filed by the Petitioners/Accused Nos.1, 2 & 3 and
4 respectively, seeking quashment of proceedings against them in
C.C.No.585 of 2022 on the file of the Court of II Additional Munsif Magistrate,
Ongole, for the offence punishable under Section 498-A read with 34 of the
Indian Penal Code, 18602 and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 3.
Since all these criminal petitions are seeking to quash the proceedings out of
the same C.C., they are decided together by this common order.
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for short „DP Act‟
Background leading to the filing of these Petitions