The petitioner is the wife of respondent No.2. Their marriage was performed on 17-6-2007. Some dispute cropped up between them and thereupon they fell apart. She presented a report before the Station House Officer, Puttur P.S., alleging that she has been harassed on the ground of additional dowry. Her report came to be registered by the Station House Officer, Puttur P.S., against respondents No.2 to 8 herein as Crime No.171 of 2009 for the offences under Section 498-A of I.P.C. and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. After due investigation, a charge-sheet came to be presented in the Court of the Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Puttur. The learned Magistrate took the charge-sheet on file as C.C.No.454 of 2009. The petitioner – de-facto complainant approached the District & Sessions Judge, Chittoor, by moving a petition under Section 408 of Cr.P.C. for transfer of C.C.No.454 of 2009 from the file of the Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Puttur, to the file of the IV-Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Chittooor. The learned Sessions Judge, on hearing the Counsel appearing for the parties, came to the conclusion that the petitioner failed to make out any valid ground for transfer of C.C.No.454 of 2009 and thereby proceeded to dismiss Crl.M.P.No.1763 of 2010 by order dated 9-12-2011. The de-facto
