THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G.BHAVANI PRASAD CRIMINAL PETITION No.7098 of 2009 DATED:10.09.2009 Between: D.Satyanarayana .. Petitioner And The State, S.H.O., U.Kothapally Police Station, East Godavary District, rep., by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderaband .. Respondent THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G.BHAVANI PRASAD CRIMINAL PETITION No.7098 of 2009 ORDER: Heard Sri Y.V.Srinivasan, learned counsel for the petitioner, and Sri A.Ramesh, learned counsel representing the learned Public Prosecutor for the sole respondent. The inquest report for the dead body of the deceased Yesu Ratnam shows that she developed intimacy with the petitioner and that the petitioner was frequently harassing the deceased for money etc., due to which problems, she ended her life being vexed with the same by jumping into the well. It is true that the crime was originally registered under Section 174 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, as the death was due to drowning in the well and it was only subsequently that the crime was altered into one under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code. It is, of course, true that the first and second accused in the crime were also stated to be harassing the deceased leading to her death by suicide, but to what extent and in what proportion, each of A.1 to A.3 were responsible for the deceased ending her life has to be gathered during further investigation. Preventing collection of the relevant evidence on this aspect by the statutory investigating agency by any premature intervention will not be in the interests of justice and if really the deceased was compelled to end her life under circumstances which may amount to committal of an offence under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code by some other persons, it will be in violation of the fundamental principles of judicial procedure to resort to the inherent jurisdiction to put an end to the discharge of the statutory duties by the investigating agency. The absence of any complaint from the deceased to the police prior to her death is no ground to reject the opinion recorded in the inquest panchanama about the cause of death and therefore, this case does not appear to be one where Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure can be taken recourse to. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. ___________________ G. BHAVANI PRASAD, J 10th September 2009 KH