HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU CRIMINAL PETITION No.991 OF 2009 DATE: 27.08.2010 Between: Y. Prabhakar Rao …… Petitioner. And: Smt M. Alivelu and 3 others …..Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU CRIMINAL PETITION No.991 OF 2009 ORDER: 1. The petitioner is the 2nd respondent in D.V.C.No.7 of 2008 on the file of IV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad. He is stated to be brother-in-law of the 1st respondent in D.V.C. who is husband of the 1st petitioner in D.V.C. Though reliefs under Sections 18, 19 and 22 are claimed against both the respondents in D.V.C, there is no allegation in paras 1 to 11 of the petition filed under Section 12 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 about complicity of the 2nd respondent/petitioner herein in the alleged Domestic Violence meted out to her by her husband. In the absence of any such allegation, impleading the petitioner herein as party-respondent in Domestic Violence Case and claiming certain reliefs against him also, is totally unsustainable in law. 2. In the result, the petition is allowed quashing proceedings in D.V.C.No.7 of 2008 on the file of IV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad in so far as the petitioner who is the 2nd respondent therein is concerned. ___________________________________ SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU, J August 27, 2010 Gk. HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU CRIMINAL PETITION No.991 OF 2009 Date: 27.08.2010 Gk.