THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE N. RAVI SHANKAR CRIMINAL PETITION No.4387 of 2011 ORDER: Petitioners are stated to be A1 to A4 in Crime No.135 of 2011 of Vemulawada Police Station. They filed this petition for quashing the FIR in the said case. 2. The offences alleged are those punishable under Sections 3(1) (x) and 3(1)(iv) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and Sections 420 and 506 read with S.34 IPC. It is not necessary to go into details. Today it is brought to my notice by Sri C.Haripreeth that petitioners 2, 3 and 4 have been arrested and remanded to judicial custody. He says that the first petitioner is a lady and she is innocent. However, whether she is innocent or not has to be decided by the investigating officer at the first instance and later on by the trial Court if the first petitioner is put on trial. As matters stand, there is no ground to interfere with the FIR and investigation. Accordingly that relief is rejected. 3. It is represented that since the first petitioner is a lady and she will have her own problems if she is arrested. I have heard Sri Mohd. Asifuddin the learned counsel appearing for the second respondent who is the de facto complainant and also the learned public prosecutor. As petitioners 2 to 4 are already arrested and are in custody and having regard to the submissions made and the circumstances of the case, I am of the opinion that while directing the police to go ahead with the investigation, they can be directed to take a decision about the arrest of the first petitioner after the completion of investigation. 4. Accordingly there shall be a direction on the above lines while dismissing this petition. ______________________ N.RAVI SHANKAR, J 13th June 2011 CVRK