IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD TUESDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C.BHANU CONTEMPT CASE NO.1683 OF 2009 Between : Bonagiri Ravinder ...PETITIONER A N D M.Prabhaka Reddy and others. …RESPONDENTS THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C. BHANU CONTEMPT CASE NO.1683 OF 2009 O R D E R: This contempt case is filed to punish respondent No.1 for willful disobedience of the orders, dated 17.03.2009 passed by this Court and which was extended until furthers on 11.06.2009 in Crl.P.No.1550 of 2009. 2. Heard. 3. The petitioner herein is the complainant and the second respondent herein is the accused, in crime No.27 of 2009 of Dundigal Police Station registered for the offence punishable under Sections 3 (1) (iv) (v) and (x) of the Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes (Prohibition of Atrocities) Act, 1989. The second respondent herein filed the above Criminal Petition to quash the proceedings in the said crime. 4. The grievance of the petitioner is that in spite of granting stay of all further proceedings in the above crime until further orders, the contemnor/respondent No.1 closed the matter referring it as civil nature. 5. In pursuance of the notice in the contempt case, respondent No.1 filed a detailed counter affidavit stating inter alia that he has not received the order, dated 11.06.2009 passed by this Court and he filed final report on 09.10.2009; and that in good faith he mentioned in the final report about the stay extended by this Court on 08.04.2009. 6. To ascertain whether the statement of the contemnor is correct or not, this Court directed the Station House Officer, Dindigal Police Station, to appear before this Court along with the Case Diary. As per the directions of this Court, Sri Ramachandru, the Inspector of Police, Dindigal Police Station, is present before this Court along with C.D.No.27 of 2009. A perusal of the said case diary shows that on 17.03.2009 initially this Court granted stay for a period of four weeks and subsequently the stay was extended for a period of eight more weeks by order dated 30.04.2009. 7. The order of this Court, dated 11.06.2009 extending the stay of all further proceedings until further orders has not been communicated to the police, therefore, the Investigating Officer, who conducted investigation in the case, filed final report. After conducting the investigation, the case was referred as civil in nature. When the order of this Court dated 11.06.2009 has not been communicated to the police, it cannot be said that respondent No.1 committed willful disobedience of orders of this Court in filing the final report under Section 173 of the Cr.P.C. Therefore, respondent No.1 has not committed any willful disobedience of orders of this Court in filing the final report. Hence, the contempt case is devoid of merits and is liable to be dismissed. 8. Accordingly, the Contempt Case is dismissed. _______________ K.C.BHANU, J FEBRUARY 01, 2011. YVL