HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Crl.P.No. 7334 of 2010 Date: 04-08-2010 Between: Seelam Srinivasa Rao and others ……… Petitioners and The State of A.P. and another …… Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Crl.P.No. 7334 of 2010 ORDER: The petitioners approached this Court with a prayer to quash the proceedings against them in Crime No.49 of 2009 of Women Police Station, Khammam, registered for the offences punishable under Section 498-A of IPC read with Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The learned counsel for the petitioners submitted before this Court that originally a complaint was lodged by the defacto complainant on 13-09-2009, for which she received an acknowledgement also, wherein she has not stated any involvement of the petitioners herein, but on 13-10-2009, she filed another complaint invoking the provisions of Domestic Violence Act, in which she has alleged that the petitioners herein necked out her from the house on 02-10-2009 and basing on the said complaint, the present crime is registered and the same is under investigation. The learned counsel for the petitioners further submitted that when two complaints are filed and they are contradicting each other, then there is no case to proceed further. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, this Court is of the view that this is not the stage for this Court to enter into the genuineness of the complaint or falsity of the allegations concerned. In any event, the petitioners are at liberty to inform about the filing of two complaints and produce the documents in their favour to the Investigating Officer, who is hereby directed to consider the same prior to the filing of the charge sheet. With the above observation, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. The petitioners are at liberty to approach this Court by filing an application for anticipatory bail if there is any apprehension of their arrest. ___________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Date: 04-08-2010 YCR