Pagidala Rajendranath, v. The State Of Telangana,

HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE U. DURGA PRASAD RAO Criminal Petition Nos.7619 and 7627 of 2014 COMMON ORDER:

In these petitions, filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C., petitioners/A1 to A3 seek to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.60 of 2012 on the file of III Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad at L.B.Nagar. On the report given by de-facto complainant the police of Uppal PS registered FIR No.582 of 2011 and after investigation laid charge sheet against A1 to A5 for the offences under Sections 420, 498A IPC and Sections 3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act.

De-facto complainant is the wife of A1 and A2 and A3 are parents of A1. The allegations in the charge sheet are that in spite of paying sumptuous dowry and paraphernalia accused harassed her for huge additional dowry of Rs.15 lakhs and other property and tortured her. Denying the allegations, learned counsel for petitioners submitted that de-facto complainant and A1 were known to each other, as they studied in DVR Engineering College, Kasipur, Sangareddy between 2002 and 2006, they both loved and got married and in this backdrop, the role of A2 and A3 being parents of A1 was very formal and the question of their demanding additional dowry and harassing her does not arise. It is further submitted that after marriage de-facto complainant stayed in in-laws' house hardly for two weeks and A2 was working as DFO in Karimnagar and therefore, accused harassing her does not arise. He thus sought for quashment of proceedings.

A perusal of FIR and other material placed by the prosecution would show a strong prima facie case against all the accused and certain

overt-acts are attributed against them. As the matter stands, it is not a fit case to quash the proceedings.

Accordingly, these Transfer Criminal Petitions are dismissed. As a sequel, miscellaneous petitions pending, if any, shall stand closed.

_________________________ U. DURGA PRASAD RAO, J Date: 13.02.2015 Murthy