CRLP/10380/2022 of FIROZ KHAN Vs STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

APHC010707672022 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3396] (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE NINETEENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION No. 10380 of 2022 Between: Firoz Khan and Others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S): 1. MOHANNAIR RAJEEV KUMAR Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR (AP) The Court made the following: ORDER: The instant Criminal Petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 19731 has been filed, by the Petitioners/A.1 to A.4, seeking quashment of the Proceedings against them in CC No.7852 of 2019 on the file of the Court of II Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Vijayawada, for the offences punishable under Sections 498-A IPC and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961. 2. Heard Sri Mohan Nair Rajeev Rajeev Kumar, learned counsel for the Petitioners and Ms.K.Priyanka Lakshmi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing for respondent No.1/State. Despite service of notice, none represented for