THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE N. RAVI SHANKAR CRIMINAL PETITION No.3665 of 2011 ORDER: This petition is filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Cr.P.C) for quashing the FIR in Crime No.193 of 2010 on the file of the P.S. Bangarupalem, Chittoor District. The de facto complainant is the wife of the petitioner. The allegation is that the petitioner induced her and took away her Passport and Visa and cheated her in many ways and did not return her the Passport and Visa in order to prevent her from travelling with him or going to his place in the USA. The police have registered the offences punishable under Section 420 IPC and also 406 IPC and this Section 406 IPC it appears relates to jewellary and money. 2. The plea of the petitioner is that earlier also the de facto complainant gave a report against him and his parents alleging offences punishable under Section 498-A IPC and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Police also filed a charge sheet in the said case in the Court of the IV Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate at Chittoor for the said offences. The contention of the petitioner’s counsel is that both the above cases pertain to the same allegations and therefore the second FIR should be quashed. It is difficult to accept this contention. It may be noted that the allegations in the present FIR relate to taking away of the Passport and Visa of the de facto complainant and not returning them. In the circumstances I am of the opinion that investigation can go on. 3. So far as the arrest of the petitioner is concerned he is not arrested in the aforesaid other criminal case also and in that charge sheet he is stated to be residing in USA. Thus it is clear that the petitioner is not appearing in the said case. So far as the jurisdiction of the concerned police to go ahead with the investigation also, it may be noted that since the other case has been dealt with by the same police it follows that this case can also be dealt with by them. It may be noted that if ultimately this case and the aforesaid other case have to be tried together basing on the allegations petitioners can raise that objection after the completion of the investigation. In these circumstances I am of the opinion that there are no grounds to interfere in this matter. Accordingly this petition is dismissed. ______________________ N.RAVI SHANKAR, J 8th June 2011 CVRK