THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R.KANTHA RAO Crl.P.No.2329 of 2008 Date:14-12-2010 Between: Rondla Bhaskar Reddy and four others …Petitioners And Jonna Vasanthakumari and another …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R.KANTHA RAO Crl.P.No.2329 of 2008 ORDER: Heard the learned counsel appearing for the petitioners and the Additional Public Prosecutor representing the State. The first respondent who filed the divorce case is the married sister of petitioners 1 and 4 and she was married on 18.06.1990 and since then she has been living with her husband elsewhere. The petitioners 2, 3 and 5 are women and they are the sisters-in-law of the first respondent and they cannot be arrayed as respondents in the divorce case. Further, the first respondent cannot be said to be in a domestic relationship with any of the respondents. If the grievance of the first respondent that she was given Ac.05.00 of land under a gift deed and she was not allowed to cultivate the said land and that the 5th respondent constructed the house therein, the dispute in the strict sense is a civil dispute and the first respondent has to work out her remedies before the civil Court having jurisdiction. Bringing the dispute into the fold of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, in the considered view of this Court is nothing but abuse of process of law. In the result, the proceedings against the petitioners/respondents 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 in D.V.C.No.38 of 2007 on the file of the V Additional Munsif Magistrate at Guntur are hereby quashed. Accordingly, the criminal petition is allowed. _______________ R.KANTHA RAO, J Date:14.12.2010 ccm THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R.KANTHA RAO Crl.P.No.2329 of 2008 Date:14.12.2010