HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE N. RAVI SHANKAR CRIMINAL PETITION No.3809 of 2011 ORDER:- Heard petitioners’ counsel and the learned Public Prosecutor. In this petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for short ‘Cr.P.C’), petitioners who are nine in number are seeking quash mentor the F.I.R.No.32 of 2010 of Chandole Police Station in Guntur District. The offences alleged are those punishable under Sections 420, 493, 506 IPC and Section 3(1)(x) and (xii) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (for short ‘the Act’). The de facto complainant-B.Vardhanarani is a Scheduled Caste woman and all the petitioners are non-scheduled caste persons. Her version is that the first petitioner by deceitful means and a promise of marriage developed cohabitation with her and she is also been blessed with a daughter and that when she demanded him to marry her he refused to marry her but continued the cohabitation and ultimately neglected her and her daughter. Her further version is that when herself and her elders questioned,o all the petitioners abused them in the name of caste and insulted them and in this way the first petitioner and others deceived her. The allegations in the F.I.R do show offences and the matter is still at the stage of investigation and there is no compelling reason to interfere with the matter as many of the contentions raised by the petitioners’ counsel fall within the purview of disputed questions of fact. It may be noted that whether the petitioners are innocent or not has to be ultimately decided first by the investigating officer and later on by the Court in case the petitioners are put on trial. In the above circumstances, there are no grounds to quash the F.I.R. It may however be noted that the third petitioner is the mother of the first petitioner and petitioners 8 and 9 are sisters of the first petitioner and these petitioners are said to be living away from the first petitioner. Petitioners 8 and 9 are said to be residing with their husband and they have nothing to do with the case. In the circumstances having regard to the fact that petitioners 2, 8 and 9 are ladies, the concerned police may take a decision regarding their arrest only after the completion of the investigation. With the above observation, this Criminal Petition is dismissed. _________________________ JUSTICE N. RAVI SHANKAR Dt.09-06-2011 Vjl