HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU CRIMINAL PETITION No.6964 of 2009 ORDER: The petitioner is the 2nd respondent in D.V.C.No.3 of 2008 on the file of III Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad at Lal Bahadur Nagar. He is brother of husband of the 2nd respondent/aggrieved party who instituted the case in the lower Court under Sections 18, 19, 20 and 22 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005. He is a resident of Texas in USA. The only allegation against him is to the effect that from 8.8.2007 to 14.12.2007 the husband did not come to receive the aggrieved person and look after her admission in Eastern Michigan University and he showed his true colors by humiliating her through other persons with aid and assistance of his brother, without meeting her and calling her directly in all possible ways by forgetting the inhuman treatment by his family members. Since the petitioner is only a brother-in-law of the aggrieved person, the petitioner is not entitled for any monetary relief by way of maintenance or any shared household. It is further contended that the brother-in-law cannot be mulcted with any compensation as he did not participate in any humiliation or causing mental agony to the aggrieved person. This Court by order dated 05.08.2011 in Criminal Petition No.1684 of 2008 quashed this Domestic Violence Case insofar as the 6th respondent therein who is married sister of the husband. The petitioner herein is also placed on the same footing as the petitioner in Crl.P.No.1684 of 2008. Presence of the petitioner in the Domestic Violence Case is only unnecessary. The petitioner and the aggrieved person never resided together. In the result, the Criminal Petition is allowed quashing proceedings in D.V.C.No.3 of 2008 on the file of III Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad at Lal Bahadur Nagar insofar as the petitioner/2nd respondent is concerned. ____________________________ SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU,J Dt. 16th December, 2011. PNV