THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No.5558 of 2008 Dated:09.07.2010 Between: Gundlapalli Srinivas. ….Petitioner And State of A.P., Rep.by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad, And another. …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No.5558 of 2008 ORDER: The petitioner is the sole accused in Crime No.251 of 2008 of P.S.Sircilla under Sections 447 and 427 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC). He filed the instant criminal petition seeking to quash the investigation. The second respondent herein filed O.S.No.24 of 2007 on the file of the Court of the District Judge, Karimnagar, against Kola Lachaiah and others. In I.A.No.95 of 2007 the said Court granted ad interim injunction on 31.05.2007. The petitioner herein filed O.S.No.109 of 2007 on the file of the Court of the Junior Civil Judge, Sircilla. He also filed I.A.No.287 of 2007 seeking interim injunction. But, the said Court on 29.06.2007 passed orders directing the parties to maintain status quo. It appears, after obtaining status quo order the petitioner went to the land admeasuring Acs.12.00 in survey No.535 which is subject matter of the suit and tried to remove certain structures by use of proclainer. Therefore, the second respondent lodged a complaint with the Police alleging that the petitioner trespassed into the land and forcibly tried to remove certain structures (kalagutta boru) from the land, which was registered as crime. Counsel for the petitioner submits that the matter is a civil dispute, and therefore, the ingredients of offence under Sections 427 and 447 of IPC are absent in the complaint. This Court after perusing the complaint given by the second respondent is not able to accept the submission. When the Court has ordered status quo, it does not mean that the petitioner herein can go with antisocial elements and make attempts to remove structures with the help of antisocial elements. It certainly, prima facie, amounts to trespass and causing mischief. This Court, however, hastens to add that the truth or otherwise allegations made by the second respondent will have to be investigated by the Police. At this stage the First Information Report cannot be quashed. The Criminal Petition, for the above reasons, is accordingly dismissed. __________________ (V.V.S.RAO, J) 09.07.2010 vs