THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.7975 OF 2007 DATED 17th FEBRURAY, 2011. BETWEEN : Kalidas Venkateswarlu @ Bondu & another .. Petitioners-A.2 & A.4 and The State of A.P. & another ..Respondents THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.7975 OF 2007 ORDER: Petitioners approach this Court with a prayer to quash the proceedings in P.R.C.No.19 of 2006 on the file of the I Additional Munsif Magistrate, Tenali, Guntur District. Heard. The main contention raised by the petitioners herein is that against the other accused persons already due trial was conducted by the trial Court in S.C.No.359 of 2007 and they were also acquitted. Hence, the same benefit can be extended to the present petitioners also. Petitioners herein are arrayed as A.2 and A.4 in the said case. Case against other accused is ended in acquittal on the ground that the victim girl, who was examined as D.W.1, categorically informed the Court that she on her own will went along with A.1 and married A.1 and she also informed regarding the marriage and the photographs were also filed. Considering the above said evidence, the other accused were acquitted by the trial Court. Present petitioners are also on the same footing and further more they are arrayed as co-accused, A.1 being the main accused. Hence, this Court is of the view that the proceedings against the petitioners pending in P.R.C.No.19 of 2006 can be quashed. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed and the proceedings in P.R.C.No.19 of 2006 on the file of the I Additional Munsif Magistrate, Tenali, Guntur District, are hereby quashed. Miscellaneous petitions filed in this Criminal Petition, if any, shall stand closed. ________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Dated : 17.02.2011 sur