IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD TUESDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.713 OF 2010 Between: 1. Boya Shanthaiah 2. Boya Lingaiah 3. Maldakal 4. Bheemesh ……Petitioners – Accused Nos.1 to 4 AND The State of A.P., Rep. by the Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad & another .....Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.713 OF 2010 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioners Boya Shanthaiah, Boya Lingaiah, Maldakal and Bheemesh, accused Nos.1 to 4 respectively, seeking to quash the proceedings against them in Crime No.3 of 2010 of Ghattu Police Station, Mahabubnagar District, registered for the offence under Section 3(1)(x) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and 324 and 34 IPC. 2. Heard. 3. The contention of the learned counsel for the petitioners is that the de facto complainant Madiga Hanumanthu is accused in an offence under Section 302 IPC (copy of the charge sheet against him is filed at pages 12 to 16 of the material papers) and relatives of the petitioners are witnesses in that case against him. Further, earlier also, the de facto complainant gave similar complaint (copy of which is filed at page 19 of the material papers) and thus he is in the habit of giving false complaints and the impugned complaint is one such case. 4. In the circumstances, it is directed that investigation and consequential steps on the basis of result of the investigation shall go on, but the petitioners shall not be arrested till filing of charge sheet, if any. 5. With the above directions, the Criminal Petition is disposed of at the admission stage itself. ____________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J February 2, 2010. PV