Yalla Venkata Srinivas Rao v. The State Of A.P.,Rep.,Pp

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Crl.P.No.6044 of 2016

ORDER

This petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioners/A1 to A5 seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.509 of 2015 on the file of II Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate, Bhimavaram, West Godavari District, for the offence punishable under Section 498-A r/w 34 IPC, against them.

2. It is alleged in the charge sheet that A1, at the instigation of A2 to A5, subjected his wife i.e., de facto complainant, to cruelty and harassed her mentally and physically by demanding additional dowry of Rs.5 lakhs from her parents and necked her out from the matrimonial house. Based on the complaint, a case in Cr.No.48 of 2015 u/s. 498-A IPC r/w 34 IPC, was registered against A1 to A5.

3. Heard and perused the material on record.

4. In view of the serious allegations mentioned in the charge sheet, the matter has to be decided after full fledged trial and therefore, this Court is not inclined to interfere with the impugned proceedings. At this stage, learned counsel for the petitioners confined his argument to the extent that the presence of the petitioners before the trial Court may be dispensed with. In view of the same, the presence of petitioner Nos.2 to 5/A2 to A5 except petitioner No.1/A1 before the trial Court is dispensed with except on the dates whenever their presence is insisted by the trial Court and they shall be represented by their counsel.

5. With the above direction, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in this criminal petition shall stand closed.

_______________ RAJA ELANGO, J 21st April, 2016

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