HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G. KRISHNA MOHAN REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.6412 OF 2008 DATE: 09-09-2011 BETWEEN: Thadi Perreddy. - - - Petitioner/ A-2. AND The State of A.P., Rep. by Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad And two others. - - - Respondents/ De-facto Complainants. This Court made the following : HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G. KRISHNA MOHAN REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.6412 OF 2008 ORDER: This Criminal Petition is filed by the Petitioner/Accused No.2 (For short, ‘A-2’) under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. seeking to quash proceedings in P.R.C. No.19 of 2008, pending on the file of Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Alamuru, East Godavari District. 2. Whereas the Petitioner is A-2, the Respondent No.1 is the Complainant and the Respondent No.3 is the De-facto Complainant in the Preliminary Registered Case and the Respondent No.2 is the father of the Respondent No.3. For the sake of convenience, I refer the parties as arrayed in the Preliminary Registered Case. 3. Heard the learned counsel for A-2 and learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the Respondents-State. 4. The case of the prosecution in brief is as follows : A-1 to A-5 in the case are the residents of Artamuru village of Mandapeta Mandal. A-2 and A-3 are close friends and followers of A-1 and A-4 and A-5 are the parents of A-1. The de-facto complainant, namely Tadi Sri Venkata Durga Bhavani a minor girl who is studying S.S.C by March, 2007 is a resident of the same village. A-1 started teasing the de-facto complainant. On 25-02-2007 with the active support of A-2 and A-3 and on the abatement of A-4 and A-5 in the case, A-1 claimed that he was loving her and wanted to marry her. Further, On 15-06-2007, A-1 to A-3 enticed the minor girl under threat and criminal force taking advantage of her innocence and her ignorance misrepresenting that her father met with an accident at Ravulapalem and took her on their motorcycle and at 12-30 noon A-2 gave her sedatives and shifted her into a Tata Sumo vehicle and took her to Ravulapalem where, A-1 joined with them and from there they took her to Venkateswara Swamy Temple in Annavarappadu and then by force A-1 tied yellow thread with satamanams around her neck, with the active support of A-2 and A-3. 5. It is the contention of learned counsel for A-2 that A-2 is no other than cousin of the de-facto complainant and there are no specific allegation against A-2, and further there was long delay of 12 days in giving relevant report to the police which is fatal to the prosecution case and a false case was foisted against him and hence it is a fit case to quash the proceedings against A-2 in P.R.C. No.19 of 2008. 6. The point for consideration is whether there are sufficient grounds in order to quash the proceedings in P.R.C. No.19 of 2008, in so far as A-2 is concerned? 7. Point: Having gone through the record, it is very clear that there are specific allegations against A-2 with regards to his participation in the alleged incident including the question of enticing the minor girl and performing the illegal marriage between her and A-1 and also assisting in the subsequent acts as a consequence of the same. Further, unless necessary investigation in the case is completed, it is not possible to say whether A-2 is innocent or not. Further, mere delay in giving the report to the police is also not a ground to quash the proceedings in such cases involving offences against women. Therefore, there are no grounds to quash the proceedings in P.R.C. No.19 of 2008. For the foregoing reasons, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. __________________________ G. KRISHNA MOHAN REDDY, J Dated: 09-09-2011. Dsh. THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G. KRISHNA MOHAN REDDY 210 CRIMINAL PETITION No.6412 OF 2008 (Dismissed) 09-09-2011 DSH