IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD TUESDAY, THE TWENTY SECOND OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.7167 OF 2009 Between: B. Kiran Kumar Reddy, S/o. B. Damoder Reddy …… Petitioner AND Smt. B. Vani & another .....Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.7167 OF 2009 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioner, B. Kiran Kumar Reddy, seeking to quash the proceedings against him in D.V.C. No.3 of 2008 on the file of X Metropolitan Magistrate, Malkajgiri, Cyberabad, filed by the wife of the petitioner Smt. B. Vani, respondent No.1 herein, under the provisions of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005. 2. Heard both sides. 3. The contention of the learned counsel for respondent No.1 is that respondent No.1 was working as Software Engineer and was drawing a salary of Rs.35,000/- per month and on account of this litigation, she was forced to quit her job and the interim maintenance of paltry amount of Rs.5,000/- per month granted itself is insufficient and the order reducing the same to Rs.2,500/- per month would further make her position miserable. 4. Whereas, the contention of the learned counsel for the petitioner is that the petitioner is not at all earning any salary and that he has no land of his own except certain ancestral land held by his father. 5. But, the material on record reveals that the family of the petitioner has substantial properties and that respondent No.1 and her people are having a sore eye on that property, which shows that the petitioner has sufficient sources for paying the interim maintenance of Rs.5,000/- per month as awarded by the trial Court. 6. In the circumstances, I see no ground to quash the order of interim maintenance passed by the trial Court and the impugned DVC proceedings against the petitioner, as such, the petition is liable to be dismissed. 7. Therefore, the Criminal Petition is dismissed, at the admission stage itself, and the order dated 21-08-2009 in Criminal M.P. No.4794 of 2009 in D.V.C. No.3 of 2008 passed by the learned X Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad, Malkajgiri, is hereby confirmed. ____________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J December 22, 2009. PV