HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.7981 OF 2010 Dated : 31.08.2010 Between : D.Prathap Naidu …. Petitioner-A.2 a n d The State of A.P. & another … Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.7981 OF 2010 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is filed by the petitioner-A.2 seeking to quash the proceedings in Crime No.93 of 2010 of Anantapur Rural Police Station registered for the offence punishable under Sections 323 and 366 read with 34 of Indian Penal Code. Case of the prosecution is that A.1 and the victim girl Prashanthi fell in love with each other. On 20.07.2010 at about 8.00 a.m. when the victim girl and her family members went to a temple, A.1 and others kidnapped her from the temple and a quarrel also took place between the accused group and complainant group in which the complainant and another person sustained injuries. Hence, the complaint. Petitioner is arrayed as A.2 in the crime. Today, A.1 appeared before this Court along with the victim girl. A.1 filed an affidavit along with a copy of the statement of the victim girl recorded under Section 164 Cr.P.C. recorded by the Judicial First Class Magistrate, Special Mobile Court, Anantapur, wherein the victim stated that at her instructions A.1 and others waited for her at Anjaneya Swamy temple and from there she voluntarily went along with the accused. She further stated that A.1 and herself got married each other and she prayed to close the case against her husband and others. Before this Court also the victim girl stated that she married A.1 against the will of her parents, she is living happily with A.1 and prayed to close the proceedings against the accused. In these circumstances, this Court is of the view that the further proceedings against the petitioner and other accused shall not be allowed to continue. Therefore, the Criminal Petition is allowed and the further proceedings in Crime No.93 of 2010 of Anantapur Rural Police Station are hereby quashed. ________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Dated : 31.08.2010 sur