HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.8369 OF 2010 Dated : 02.09.2010 Between : Manda Kondanna …. Petitioner-de facto Complainant a n d The State of A.P. & others … Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.8369 OF 2010 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is filed by the petitioner-de facto complainant seeking to quash the proceedings in Referred Charge Sheet No.1 of 2008 on the file of the Judicial First Class Magistrate’s Court, Wanaparthy, Mahabubnagar District, for the offence punishable under Section 3 (vi) (x) of SCs & STs (POA) Act, 1989 (for short ‘the Act’). Basing on the complaint lodged by the petitioner herein Police registered a case in Crime No.84 of 2008 for the offence punishable under Section 3 (vi) (x) of the Act. After due investigation Police referred the case as ‘false’. Subsequently, petitioner filed a protest petition on the basis of which learned Magistrate took cognizance of the case. But, interestingly, the de facto complainant who set the law in motion and aggrieved person approached this Court with this Criminal Petition with a prayer to quash the proceedings against the accused on the ground that the matter has been compromised. This Court perused the entire record and also the affidavit of the petitioner. Today, petitioner is present before the Court and reiterated the contents of his affidavit. In view of the compromise entered into between the parties and also the fact that they should be allowed to lead a peaceful life in the society, this Court is of the view that the proceedings are liable to be quashed, for which the learned Public Prosecutor also not objected. Therefore, the Criminal Petition is allowed and the proceedings in Referred Charge Sheet No.1 of 2008 on the file of the Judicial First Class Magistrate’s Court, Wanaparthy, are hereby quashed. Miscellaneous petitions filed in this Criminal Petition, if any, shall stand closed. ________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Dated : 02.09.2010 sur