THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.11810 OF 2010 ORDER: The petitioners approach this Court with a prayer to quash the proceedings initiated against them in Crime No. 172 of 2010 on the file of the Station House Officer, Addakal Police Station, Mahabubnagar District, wherein the petitioners were arrayed as Accused for the offences punishable under Sections 494, 420 and 109 of I.P.C. The allegation against the 1st petitioner is that he married the 10th petitioner, Smt. S. Varalaxmi. Aggrieved over the same, the second respondent, Smt. Suvarna lodged a complaint against the 1st petitioner and the other petitioners for the aforesaid offences. Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that it is true that the 1st petitioner married the 10th petitioner, but it was done only after he obtained divorce by mutual consent. This Court perused the records. Admittedly, divorce was granted by the competent Court on 2.3.2010, that too, by mutual consent and subsequently, the 1st petitioner married the 10th petitioner in April, 2010. When the first marriage was not in existence, contacting of second marriage would not amount to offence under Section 494 I.P.C. Further the ingredients of Section 420 of I.P.C. and 109 of I.P.C. are also not made out. Hence, this Court is of the view that the proceedings initiated against the petitioners are liable to be quashed. The Criminal Petition is accordingly allowed and the proceedings initiated against the petitioners in Crime No. 172 of 2010 on the file of the Station House Officer, Addakal Police Station, Mahabubnagar District are hereby quashed. ______________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Dated : 3rd November, 2011 pnb