HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.7805 of 2007 ORDER: Petitioners approach this Court with a prayer to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.602 of 2007 on the file of the III Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad, whereby they are facing charge for the offence punishable under Sections 344 of IPC. Heard both sides. The brief facts of the case are as follows: The petitioners herein adopted the child of respondents 1 and 2, by name Shruthika born on 08.09.2000, by way of a registered deed of adoption, dated 02.01.2004. While the adoption deed is in force, the respondents herein cancelled the adoption deed unilaterally without informing the petitioners herein. In the eye of law, when the adoption deed is in existence, the petitioners are entitled to have the custody of the said child and the cancellation of the said deed is not valid in law and further even assuming for a moment that there is a valid cancellation, the custody of the child with the petitioners herein will not amount to any criminal offence. Hence, this Court is not having any hesitation to quash the proceedings against the petitioners. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed and the proceedings in C.C.No.602 of 2007 on the file of the III Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad, at L.B.Nagar, against the petitioners are hereby quashed. Miscellaneous petitions filed along with the criminal petition, if any, shall stand closed. ________________ RAJA ELANGO, J. 24th February 2011, Rns.