Padma Deshmukh v. The State Of Telangana

THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE G. SRI DEVI Crl.P.No.6301 of 2019

ORDER

This petition is filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C., seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.216 of 2014 on the file of the XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, registered for the offence under Section 498-A IPC and under Sections 4 and 6 of Dowry Prohibition Act, against petitioners/A1, A2, A4 and A5. 2.

Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the 1st respondent-State and perused the material on record.

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Though the petitioners have raised several grounds to quash the aforesaid proceedings, learned counsel for the petitioners, during hearing, submits that charge sheet was filed long back, but trial has not been commenced and requested that there may be a direction to the trial Court to dispose of the aforesaid case as expeditiously as possible.

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In view of the request made by the learned counsel for petitioners, without going into the merits of the matter, it would be appropriate to direct the trial Court to expedite trial in C.C.No.216 of 2014 on the file of the XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, and dispose of the same in accordance with law as expeditiously as possible, preferably, within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order.

GSD, J Crl.P.No.6301 of 2019 5.

With the above direction, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. 6.

Miscellaneous petitions, if any pending in this criminal petition, shall stand closed.

_____________ G. SRI DEVI, J 1st October, 2019 sj