HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G.V.SEETHAPATHY Criminal Petition No.2464 of 2009 ORDER: This criminal petition is filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. seeking quashing of further proceedings in FIR No.60 of 2004 of PS Atmakur, Anantapur district, against the petitioners-A.5 & A.6. 2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondents-State. Perused the record. 3. The 2nd respondent herein, who was the police constable, attached to Atmakur Police station, gave a complaint against the petitioners-A.5 & A.6 and others, which was registered as FIR No.60 of 2004 for the offences under Sections 147, 148, 333, 326, 307, 341 read with 149 IPC. According to the complainant, on 22.09.2004 he along with Mr. Ayub PC 1797 and Mr. Ranjith PC 4147, proceeded to Thanginapalli and other villages on the instructions from the higher officials to collect information regarding certain hired assassins against whom NBWs were pending and while returning at about 4 p.m. they saw a crowd near Mudigubba cross and came to know about some meeting being held by the extremist elements. He further alleged in the complaint that while keeping a watch over the place for the purpose of information regarding hired assassins, he was confronted by one Gopal Naik and others and asked about his identity and when he disclosed that he was a police constable, he was dragged to the stage of the meeting, where the Sarpanch Lakshminarayana told to the petitioners and others that the complainant was covering the meeting, where upon the petitioners and others pushed him and dragged the complainant and several others who are named in the FIR beat him, abusing him in filthy language, shouting that he be killed and Thagarikunta Manjunatha Reddy and Badam Shiva Reddy stoned him causing bleeding injuries and the said incident was covered by the media also. It is further stated that he was carried by some other members of the group and dumped there in unconscious state and later he regained consciousness and himself admitted in Government General Hospital, Anantapur. 4. A perusal of the complaint would disclose that specific allegations are made against the petitioners-A.5 & A.6 attributing overt acts to them prima-facie attracting the ingredients of the alleged offences. Learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that the petitioners-A.5 & A.6 were merely mediators, who were trying to mediate between the extremist elements and civil society. The averments in the complaint are however to the effect that the petitioners-A.5 & A.6, on coming to know that the complainant was a police constable, man-handled him and dragged him and instigated physical assault on the complainant, as a result of which, the complainant was severely beat by the members of the group who attempted to kill him. Learned Additional Public Prosecutor on instructions would submit that 13 witnesses have been examined so far and the charge sheet is yet to be filed. 5. Having regard to the gravity of the nature of the offences alleged in the complaint and specific overt acts attributed to the petitioners-A.5 & A.6, prima-facie attracting the ingredients of the alleged offences and also the fact that the investigation is almost completed, it is considered not a fit case to invoke inherent powers of the Court under section 482 Cr.P.C. and quash further proceedings in pursuance of FIR No.60 of 2004 at this stage. 6. In the result, the criminal petition is dismissed. __________________ G.V.SEETHAPATHY, J Date: 29.09.2011 bss