IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD MONDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION NO.7914 OF 2010 Between: M.Suman Reddy and others. … PETITIONERS And The State of A.P. and another. …RESPONDENTS This Court made the following: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.7914 OF 2010 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short “Cr.P.C.) is filed by the petitioners to quash proceedings in C.C.No.516 of 2009 on the file of IV Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad, Ibrahimpatnam, against the petitioners herein for the offences punishable under Sections 4(i)(ii) of A.P. Prohibition of Ragging Act, 1997. 2. Today, the matter is posted for hearing. Respondent No.2 – complainant appeared before this and expressed his willingness to compromise the issue. The learned Public Prosecutor also accepted the same. Respondent No.2 – complainant filed an affidavit which reads as follows: “ I Bhalake Dinesh S/o Vishwanath, aged 19 years, Occ:Student B.Tech 2nd Year EEE, in Visvevaraya College of Engineering and Technology, Patel Guda Village, Ibrahimpatnam Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, having come down to Hyderabad, do hereby solemnly and sincerely affirm and states as follows: 1. I am the respondent No.2 herein and the de facto complainant as such I am well aware of the facts of the case. 2. I state that, now I am studying B.Tech EEE Course in Visvevaraya College of Engineering and Technology, Patel Guda Village, Ibrahimpatnam Mandal, Ranga Reddy District. On 12.11.2009 I lodged a complaint before the police Ibrahimpatnam upon which the police registered a FIR and after completion of the investigation filed the charge sheet the same is numbered as C.C.no.516 of 2009 on the file of the Hon’ble IV Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad at Ibrahimpatnam. 3. I state that, the said complaint is filed by me due to some misunderstanding of the situation occurred between me and other students. As a matter of fact I have no grievance against the petitioners and now we are moving friendly and there is no quarrel in between them and me. 4. I state that, as we are moving friendly and I have no grievance earlier or at present as against them as such I do not want to prosecute them as such the criminal case which is pending against them C.C.No.516 of 2009 on the file of the Hon’ble IV Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad at Ibrahimpatnam may be quashed for which I have no objection”. 3. By way of the above affidavit, respondent No.2 - complainant has stated that he is not intending to proceed further against the petitioners herein, in view compromise entered between the parties, and therefore, he wants to settle the matter. 4. The learned Public Prosecutor also stated no objection for the same. 5. Taking into consideration the affidavit filed by respondent No.2 - complainant, all the further proceedings in C.C.No.516 of 2009 on the file of the IV Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad, Ibrahimpatnam, are hereby quashed as far as the petitioners herein is concerned. 6. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed. _________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO AUGUST 02, 2010 YVL THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.6593 OF 2010 July 09, 2010