THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE P.S.NARAYANA Criminal Petition No.4025 of 2007 18th March, 2010 Between :- Bommareddy Appi Reddy And others .. Petitioners And Palanki Nageswara Reddy And another .. Respondents THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE P.S.NARAYANA Criminal Petition No.4025 of 2007 ORDER:- Heard the Counsel. 2. The present Criminal Petition is filed praying for quashing of the private complaint C.C.No.557/2006 on the file of the Judicial First Class Magistrate, Tiruvuru, Krishna District. 3. The 1st respondent – complainant filed the present complaint alleging that “he inherited the land admeasuring Ac.2.77 cents in R.S.No.91/3, 91/4 and 91/6 of Maddeulaparva village through a will deed dt.28-9-1997 executed by his mother Smt.Palanki Chitteemma and he is cultivating the same on giving it to kowl to one Koppula Surayya. On the call of said Koppula Surayya, complainant went to his lands at about 12-00 noon on 7-4-2006 and by that time all the accused are there with the Tractor belonging to one Vuyyuru Anji Reddy of Reddygudem. On seeing the complainant the 1st accused scolded saying that “what is the work for you here and came for taking paddy, kill him here only”. Other accused attempted to beat complainant and trespassed into the complainant’s land and took away 17 bags of paddy which is said to be received by complainant towards kowl. The paddy was took by accused without the consent of complainant and in a stealthy manner and loaded the same in the Tractor of Vuyyuru Anji Reddy and one Appireddy of Vissannapeta tried to take photographs. The 1st accused pulled away the camera by saying that who are you to take photographs and on the promise of Appireddy that he would not take photographs, 1st accused returned the camera. While taking 17 bags of paddy, all the accused threatened the complainant that if he came to land again, they will kill him. The value of the paddy taken away by the accused is about Rs.6,000/-. The complainant reported the same to the police on the same day but the police did not take any action against the accused. The complainant is apprehending danger to his life in the hands of the accused.” 4. It is also stated that the private complaint of the 1st respondent, the Judicial First Class Magistrate, Tiruvuru referred the same to Vissannapeta Police for investigation. On reference, Visannapet Police registered the same as F.I.R.No.26/2006 and investigated the matter and filed final report before the Judicial First Class Magistrate, Tiruvuru by referring the crime as “Civil Nature”. Thereafter, the 1st respondent instead of filing protest petition, again filed private complaint and the same was taken on file. 5. This Court had gone through the grounds specifically raised and even if the allegations made to be taken, this Court is of the considered opinion that the dispute being of civil nature, especially in the light of the final report already filed by the police in this regard, no useful purpose would be served in permitting the 1st respondent to further proceed with the proceedings. 6. In view of the same, the proceedings are hereby quashed and the Criminal Petition is allowed. _____________________ Justice P.S.Narayana 18th March, 2010 smr